Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-04-07

States Army.-we learn from the Last Gazette that they
are to be joined at this place by another party on horse
back, coming through by land from Memphis. They
are from Alabama, and are on their way to their desti-
nation west of Arkansas. We understand they proceed
up to-day.-Li"ie Rock "a. ~ Times, RET. %.
A letter from Boston, received at Hudson's News
Hon. Benjamin L. Pickinan, President of the Senate of
Massachusetts,. He had been unwell for several days,
but on Saturday morning, while conversing with his
physician, he was attacked with a~poplexy, fell back
and expired in three minutes. He was much respected
both in public and private life.
TRAGEDY IN REAL LIrr.-A Nashville paper gives
an affecting account of the death of a young man by a
wound inflicted on himself, while performing the part
of Bertraul, in Maturin's tragedy of that name. His
name was Mclaughlin. He had bceni i'm Nashville about
four weeks, and became a member of the Thespian Club
"A company of amateur actors. He is represented rs a
man of enthusiastic temperament, easily susceptible of
poetic and imaginative excitement. On the evening of
the fatal performance, as the tragedy preceded towards
the catastrophe, his excitement increased, and the gloomy
spirit of the play was upon him with a power that
made a strong impression of reality upon his hearers, and
made them shudder as he pronounced the following. ac.
componied by the plunge of the dagger that brought him
TO his death:
aBS,lnm hath hut ono fatal foe on Garth,
Il was at this moment that he plunged the weapon To
his heart. 1t is said to have been an accident. But IL is
the opinion of the Nashville Editor, that il was the re-.
suit of the excited feelings of the actor. who had SO all.
%sorbingly entered into the dreadful shirt of his hero ,s
to drive home his death upon his heart. bv the mere sn,s
modic action of the muscles that unconsciously moved
TO do the bidding of the tempest of passion Within
ecN''E INV ~ Pttihtuiltltdp purpose. IL was an nCCl
dent-for he had no design of ending his life with the
play; but, looking athis complete Identification of feeling
with the part he acted, the accident becomes a natural
and not n wonderful consequence. The hallucination
did not end with the plunge of the dagger. His fcclincs
bore him along yet further. There was still. after some
EXPLANATIONS ~ofsurprise from the tragic monks. a DIVING
sentence for him to repeat. lie went through il with 4
startling effect. With a burst of cxultation, he exclaim.
ed,
al died no elon death
n warriors weapon freed WARRIORS soul!n
AS soon as the last words were pronounced he fell. Ia
rise no more. The wound was inflicted on the lief breast
The bleeding was internal, and so slow in its progress
that II did not finally clog the action of the heart iii the
expiration of near two days. An appropriate funeral
sermon was pronounced over his remains by the Rev
MI. Howell, OF the Nashville Baptist Church, who re-
lated that he was accidentally n fellow-passenoer with The
deceased when he came TO the city four weeks before
That he had been interested in him-had conversed will
him-had learned from his own lips his predictions TO,
the stagc-had advised him to manly and substantial pur
suits-had learned from him that, at times, he had serious
and solemn thoughts on the subject of religion, and gain.
Ell from him n promise, that he would attend 10 the con
Germs OF his soul. He saw him no more until the da,
before he died, when lying on his death.bed. Mr.. Nc
Laughlm then referred to the former conversation will
Mr.. Howell-said that he was still concerned to secur,
the salvation OF his soul, and that if he recovered. h,
should have learned one lesson. lie did not recover
Inc lesson to which he referred, is now for the living t
~learn.-BoSton Courier.