Litchfield enquirer., 1830-08-05

sq,nf exnrctdtion to indulge in, that in half
a centurv. France NAV extend her dominion
on the one hand 10 the confines of Barca, and
ON the other, to the pillars of Hercules.
N. " Daily Ado. a
Death of Gen. Sucre.-Letters received by
the Montilla, state, that Gen. Antonio Jose de
Sucre had been assassinated while on his way
to Paste. If this be true, it is to he much la
mented. Next to Bolivar. Gen. Sucre is the
greatest benefactOr of South America. He
was born at Cumana, in Venezuela; in 1898;
consequently, was 81 years old at the time Of
his death. -
Shocking Perjmy.-The public will very
distinctly recoIlect the trial, of the three
YOungs for the supposed murder of Jesse
Masters, at the Cure Assizes Of 1928 and 1929.
John and Christian Young were tried in 1898,
and James Young in 1899. These injured
men were indicted upon the testimony of one
VIM. SheeIer, and put upon their trial on his
evidence. Sheeler swOre that he saw the
murder committed; that he saw Masters beat
down with an axe by the Youngs, and believ-
ed he was flung into burning coal-pit and
consumed. The evidence of this monster
was SO pointed and circumstances so unfavor-
able to the accused, that the public, almost to
man, believed them guilty of the bloody
deed. The Jury had doubts, and leaning to
the side of mercy acquitted the two first in
| 1923. In 1929, the third Young was brought
to trial for the same offence, and had TO en-
counter the same base testimony. He like
wise was acquitted; but acquitted under cir
cumstances which impressed the public mind
with strong conviction Of his guilt. The
| sequel remains to be told. On Monday last,
| the identical Jesse Masters here spoken OF,
do livi in fONy in
despite of1hc Youngs and the coaI-pit, addu-
cling vertable testimony that he was not MUIR
dered comfortable to the evidence of the said
VIM. Sheeler. We understand that Sheeler
has been sent for by authority, and thus he
will be confronted with the living ghost of the
| very man he swOre to have seen murdered
In this matter, we record facts that may be
J relied on.-Gore u. c.. Balance.
The Savannah Republican, of the i 5th inst.
says {" We understand from gentleman who
left Fort Mitchell few days since, that
Council of Chiefs, Head-men and Warriors,
Of the Greek nation, are to meet al Watumka
ON the 18th, for the purpose ofreciving talk
from the United States Agent. on the subject
of their removal west of the Mississippi
Hopes are entertained that majority Of the
Chiefs will consent to the removal of the bal
ance of the nation the ensuing year."
Salem Murder.-We are informed, says the
Boston Courier, that the Grand Jury, which
has just investigated this mysterious transac-
tion,has succeeded in obtaining evidence, both
direct and confrmatory, which was not be-
fore known to exist. 1t is not in our power
to conceive the purport oft.
Intemperonce and Murder.-The court room
in Detroit city presented the last week an un-
usual spectacle. A husband tried for the
murder of his wife: the witnesses, their own
children; upon their testimony, a verdict of
guilty found and recorded. The murder was
committed by Stephen G. Simons on the 14th
of June last, in the house kept by him as a
tavern, half way between Detroit and Ypsil-
anti. The circumstances, as disclosed by the
Witnesses were, that on Sunday previous, Sim
mbns returned home after an absence of a
week, in which he attended the progress Of
civil suit in the Circuit Court, passed the
Sabbath with his family, and they were all
happy together. Both himself and his wife
drank freely. On Monday each took dram
in the morning, and lay down upon the bed,
where they remained until about an hour be-
fore sunset. Simmons then rose and made
some inquiries ofhis daughter concerning the
stageman, whom he suspected to have i'm
proper intercourse with his wife. He then
beat her, until she died The evidence made
the hearers acquainted with the condition of
the family for some years past. Itrepresent-
ed husband sometimes forcing. always en-
couraging his wife to drink and in his mo-
ments characterization, beating her with the
hand or instruments Of wood or iron, and DIR
wing her forth at night to seek shelter in the
woods, following her and stamping upon her.
II represented mother in a drunken carousal
with her husband in the presence of their
children; or rasing like a fury, and grasping
chairs or boards to beat them, and drive them
from the house. Incorporate men and in
temperate women. can you learn nothing from
this !-Detroit Journal.
A Kentuckian who attended the late meet
ings held in New FORK for promoting the es-
Enlistment of Sunday Schools throughout
the valley of the Mississippi, writes to friend
at home that great ignorance of the state Of
education at the west was exhibited by those
who took part in the proceeding. He gives
it as his candid opinion that there is more
intelligence among the people of Kentucky
than among the inhabitants of the great state
of N. York; that their bar is in every sense
Of the term superior their diviles as pious
and eloquent; and their medical faculty I'M
surpassed by any in the union. He winds off
by advising the New Workers to demonstrate
to the world that they are actually men of
sense-which he thinks will be effected when