Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-10-31

lamentations which distressed the sympathles OF
the neIghborhood; and when told few weeks
ago that it was to be torn down. he said it was
then time for him to be torn down also. and ac-
tually removed to an obscure nook IN one ot the
western counties, professedly from inability 10
| endure the destruction of his beloved domicii.
About a fortnight ago, the house was torn
down, ana discovery made which has produc'
ed little excn-,nent IN that region, and, in the
imagination OF many, affords clue both to the
prosperity Of A. OF t,- period above spoken
of, and to his subsequent eceontritit,es. The
! house had no cellar; and rhe floor vas laid on
! large sleepers which rested on the groun" Be-
/, tween two of these quantity OF earth had Dee
filled in, which in consequence oi the settInS o'
the house had caused a rising in the floor direct
lv above II. On removing this aperiect human
skeleton was found. living ON one side, with the
hip and knee joints slightly bent.
A coroDer's jury was Immediately called. ana
after examining several witnesses, adjourned tor
the purpose of sending for A, who vas nun
ted out, arrested, and brought 10 the place just
as our informant was about to leave 1t. lie ar
rived in state of bosterous hilarity. and seem
ed disposed to treat the matter as an excellent
Joke. As to the bones. he said he placed them
there himself; and that they were those OF an
Indian, which had been dug up hard nv, at the
whom he appealed recoilected some Indian
bones having been dug up about that time, but
they we're only the larger bones of the frame, and
even then much decaved; while the skeleton
found under the floor was entire-each bone be-
ing not only well preserved. but placed in its
proper position; a circumstance hardly to be
expected from As limited knowledge of
anatomy.
But setting this aside. enough came to light be-
lore the jury, TO show beyond doubt that hu-
man bndy must have been deposited there since
the building of The house. For example, the
floor was originally fastened down with long
drought nails, and the part directly over the
skeleton has evidently been forced up since
The nails remaining in the sleepers, the heads
were drawn through the boards. These appear
to have been bent down and driven into the wood !;
and the boards, when laid down again, were fas-
tened with cm nails. Again: witness remem-
bered conversation he had formerly had with
clerk in As sture concerning the situation of
the house; and to have expressed his surprise
that cellar had not been dug under it. The
reason given was, that the Earth under the house
seemed to be impregnated with something which
gave il strong smell Of carbon. A physician
of the first responsibility, who had attended a
sick person in the house about the same period,
u
cerainpd that the family actually quilted the
house Tor many months on the same account, and
resided in shop III the rear. In short, when
our info, mant left the place, facts were daily
coming tn light through the excited recoe tons
of the older inhabitants, all contributing to the
bsi.tT that iuUi murder had been committed.
and tending TO fix the guilt on the elder A.. with
the pr:vity, IL not the participation of his brother
The most probable con lecture in regard TO the
victim is. that il was either w. or the pedar
above spoken Of; both of whose fates are inyoly.
ed in so much uncertainty.
We understand that William Aliens right to
a seat in the esd Congress from this district,
will be contested upon the grounds that there
were a number of illegal votes cast for him-such
as minors, aliens and DISTINGUISHED persons: and
that in one Of the townships IN this county, one
of the trustees, who was himself a candidate, sat
as judge Of the election, which is contrary to the
law Of tins State, regulating elections Its be-
lieved that these grounds can be fully sustained
by proof Ch,Aicothe Ohio GnS.
John .fdan,s and President Jackson We
have in another article cOntrastcd the practice
and professions Of President Jackson with those
of one OF his predecessors. In the following let
ter will be found contrast of his conduct even
more striking, with another of them. 1t was one
of the prominent objections to President JOHN
ADAMS, by his political adversares, that he
evinced disposition to give to the Chief EAeou-
i've office too hieh tone, and to stretch It's pr.
vileges beyond their just and constitutional H.
mits. yet compare the Difference tor "a co,ordi-
nate branch of the Government on a difference
of opinion, displayed by that honest patriot in
the following letter, with President Jackson's
treatment of the same body.-Nat Int.
:. Gentlemen of the Sena'e:
~ have considered the advice and consent of
the Senate to the ratification of the convention
with France, under certain conditions. Al.
though it would have been more conlormabIe TO
INV own judgment and inclination to have agreed
to that instrument uncondtionalIy, vet IN this