Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-01-05

il is !:tle remarkable that III. !. j. Cl;tenic:,
the gentlemen who offered the resolutions referred
TO, should have written letter, las, winter, to
gentleman in this city, using this strong language
&c hope you will make the General beat the |
Yankee" This letter was repeatedly read as evil
denoe Of public sentiments ia Kentucky. But, Mr.. |
Adams succeeded, and that changes the aspec,-of
the question. tVash City Gdz.
A letter from gentleman in New Orleans, to
his friend in Louisville, dated Nov &c, states tina,
business is remarkably dull. The tanks were not
DESIGNATING. In consequence OF last seasons spec
ulations, the failure of Duncan and Son, in Liver
pool, and recent failures in New York, confidence
was des;royed and the failure OF of the first
houses in New Orleans, was anticipated Charles
5. West. cashier of the Branch Bank OF the United
States, at New Orleans, had been discharged He
acknowledged himself defaulIer for $s2i 900.
which his securities Immediately paid, and further
deficiencies were discovered on the 26th, which
would probably make mis- defaca,ion exceed
$50 600. West had ahsconded.
Louisville .adp.
WEsrsIELp, Dec Give have read. and
perhaps we may say not unfequently noticed. in
stances of murder aud suicide at distance from US,
| but we do not recollect 10 have known a case Of
the kind in own neighbourhood till the one we
are about TO notice. The case in question seems 10
be aggravated TO extent which we seldom nave
known Our blood almost chills in our veins
when we reflect that man who is in the posses
sion of his right mind; who possesse. much world
| ~ substance; who has large family of promising
children, and in the meridian of life to be guilty of
taking the Lille of one whom he was bound by the
sacred ties OF matrimonial engasemen TO nourish
and protect; and then putting end 10 his own
existence.
a most horrid and cold booded murder occurred
in West Springfield, Agawam, on Wednesday
morning of last week. The circumstances so tar
as we have been enabled to learn, are as follows:
MIR Samuel Leonard, aged thirty -six, it appears,
had told his wife Tor some time past that he would
Kill her; ana 1t seems he had contemplated have
put has horrible purpose into execution a week be-
fore he did; but owing TO few little matters, which
1t would be unnecessary To notice. be delay ed his
deathlul work. On TUESDAY evening Mrs. Leo
nard attended conference meeting in that neigh
borhood, which her husband absolutely forbid al the
peril OF her life: but she paid no attention to his
threats. ii being nothing new, but went, and at the
close of the meeting returned TO a brother of Mr.
Leonards, where she tarred till morning. In Tie
course OF the evening, her husband brought his axe
into the house, honed his razor and gave his pocket
book TO his oldest daughter, which he had done the
week before, when he intended 10 have carried his
awful threats into effect. After remaining up till
about II o'clock, and his wife not coming home
he went 10 bed. II appears he anticipated doing
his bloody work that night had his wife returned
In the morning he sent his daughter, the one who
took the book, 10 his brothers. tell her that their
second daughter was unwell and needed her assis-
lance, but she refused 10 return. He then went
himself, and spoke to his brother and shook hands
with him, which he had not done for three Years
Alter stating to his wife the pretended situation of
their child, in an unusually pleasing manner, she
returned and found the child was not sick. but in
good health, but he persisted in her sickness. and
administered an emetic. He used these fiatter;,r
words, this pretension for no other reason than to
induce his vile to return, who disposed 10 STAY
as she mad returned, and went about her domestic
concerns, when the unieeling and thouehtless
wretch approached her with his axe and gave her
three or four blows on the side of her head. which
iaid her lieless at his feet, he then Immediately
turned his back upon his daughter who was in
bed waiting for the operation OF the emetcs .be
had taken, and saw all that passed. and with his
previously prepared instrument severed his wind
pipe. The daughter, who had all the while re-
NAMED silent through fear, now spread the alarm.
when very soon the neighbors collected to witn.sa
a spectacle which can better be imagined than des
cribed.
MIR. Leonard was in some measure addicted N
inemperance, but whether this influenced him ia
| commit so iniainan an act, is not known
| The funeral was attended on Friday, when il
was estimated that three thousand FIVE hundred per-
sons were present.
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