Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1827-10-09

hei legs. snd was unabie To m-.Se good lie. retreat
lie came down stains and carried her into the
house. placed her upon the ted, and lied his peck
ct handkerchief around the fractured leg. She
begged him TO 20 for phy stefan. declaring that IL
he did she would no, tell that be had beea the
ot the misfortune. He told her that he would
-" soon be doctor enongh Tor her, and took hi. ri
he anu deliberately .ho' her through the head just
above the right eye. lie then reloaded his gun
and tied the trigger To the latch of the door aud
hired with view of killing himself. bu, in this
he failed. He took another drink of grog, loaded
MS gun again. sat down on the side OF the bed
where bis bleeding wife was sasping her last plar,
ed his gun between his legs and holding the nuzzl-
little above his lett eye,he fred il otf by placing
one OF his toes upon the trigger. All this vas done
in the presence OF several small children both
white and black, the oldest OF whom is about ten
or eleven years of age and the daughter Of this un-
fortunate aud woman, who Is said tn relate
the foregoing PARTICULARS of the affair. Captain
burton has been ior two or three years ~ habrs OF
excessive inieinpersnce, by which il is said his
mind hsd become impaired, end at the time o
committing the above enoIn,ity he was in a Fl, ui
'ntoxica'ion, and WAS thought 10 be in a state o.
mental arrangement Shell Conn.
FREDERICKsBvRC, September 90 - On Thurs
DAY last, murder corpmiii-j ia Madison
County, on the body OF MIR. George NJ Pitcher,
formerly OF this place, by man named Mar.hai
finkard. The particulars, as far az v e have beep
able To ascertain them, were as foliows:-it Seems
there had been some previous difference between
Pinkard and his neighbour, Capt. James Walker
Finksrd, as we are Informed, had agreed to sign
paper To b. drawn up by Walker, exonefa,inp
the latter from any thing which The former mig Li
nave said deiogstoiy to - character. On the eiay
OF The murder, Walker, in company with Mr. PHI
cher, procee led to the premises of Pnkard, and
handed him, the paper wb:ch he had prepared for
I'm In 4,
upon the ground, declaring thst he would lose the
last drop OF bis blood before he would sign it,
Upon which Walker gave lin a cut over the
shoulder with switch ne hsd in hs hand. Pinkard
immediately drew a knife from his pocket and
stabbed Walker IN two places, though not dan
gerousiy. Mr.. Pitcher, perceivng the use Pin
kard was making OF the knife, caught him by the
skirt of the coat pull him back, when he re-
ceived stab in the abdomen, of which he died
the same night. Packard was soon after appre.
hended and committed for trial Mr.. Pitcher was
respectable man, and has left wife in Madison
County, and father and mother and other rela-
ives In this place, 20 mourn his melancholy fate
Herald
dieting IF Congress. - The e" cosliiion" have
instructed The members their eide to he punctu-
al TO an hour, and be on tn. SPOT on the opening
Of the session, Is December TO a-sis, in the
choice OF Speaker. We hope and trust that the
engagements so as to be the ground at least one
day previous. II should be remembered that early
the wbols force OF the coalition ~ in New England
and by good roads and steamboats, they can easily
oe on NE sFo'. The roads through the Western
county arc bad; therefore, TO prevent any haz ard
members should set out week earlier. If The Jack :
ton men are ready. they will elect their Speaker
aud that Is OF great moment 10 US
Nv. YORK Eng.
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PF0Uidcn:iai Escape .-Whie John Smith.
Esq an old snd respectable inhabtant of ibi. eli v
was on an excursion to Niagara Falls. he, with
some 6c3tiemen, was -ndravouring to get near the
sheet IL water, the British side that forms that
immense cataract, when Mr.. Smiths foot (be he
ing io'emos'} spt, and lie precIpiist.ci fort
ieet over the rocks fa', projecting led.e n,
'he precipice In this coalition he was witbou,
any possible means Of getting back again, a. M
one couid 'ord him the less, assistance by rope O,
otherwise from above, such being the formation n
ne place from whence he iell. At last be mad.
desperate effort TO climb up by means of proier,ir,
rocks, out he had no sooner put his weight on on
% 'hein th'n it gave way, he precipitatet
MY ieet further down The cataract IIis HEAD wa.
cur IN several places and hi body greatly br,.eI
When he recovered his recoileciion he found
ni'n7eH again on The top OF the rock from which
ne ma INST lai.en How he got up on the n:eh,
OF stairs TN his weak and bleeding condition no one
can tell, not even himself. His friends received
tOOlg in,
10 WI. cOTsyth's tavern, where this unteeIino puf
ican refused him help or succour, observation-disclosures
me urgent solicitations of Mr.. Smith, fiends a,d
himself almost in expiring condition. Mr.
fOrsyth plea for not admitting him was that h..
looked 80 bad" neither moi.ey nor entreaties
couid Induce him TO offer MIR. Smith anv as-is,
ancc' covered with blood and -iIli BLEEDING RAJ
pi'iy, at eish' O'Clock in the evening in This beD
iess condition, he was turned from the doors. and
oohsed 10 cross the river TO the America, sidc
whefe hs was received and Hospitality treated Inv
MI Whitney, who did every thing in his power to
prove hmseli The good Ssnsritau'' For sev.-
raj days after this accident, Mr.. Smith discbars,d
large Quantities OF exravasateJ blood from ,b- ,on
oil MS stomach, bui other III consequences en-
sued. IN Y A. ~ GU
.T'rorr a.. Aosfan C1,ri.rI
E1cls.--A single mercantile house on 7 on,
wharf, has sold, since The first of January las,
"TfySrren thousand barrels of Ge1essee Flour.
OF "hich less than 500 barr els have been d;soos.d
OF cosst-wisej tie remainder has been soid -
country traders and chiefly those in the msnur,c.
turing Villages.
Another hoase has paid, since the Is, oF a--;,
one hundred AID Jiffy thonsonG dOiIqr, for e,
meTicd" wool, purchased OF farmers and wooI.
growers belonging TO the New 1t gland States and
view York, and sold out again to the mauuf,ctu-
rers of New-EnglanJ.
1ne Boston x C~n,cn Factory Cor,o,,v i,,.