Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1841-05-31
CRIMES, CASUALTIES, &C.

CRIMES, CASUALTIES, &C.
Murder in VI ssoui-Mr. Mackey, residing
near ClurkSvile, Pike County, Mo-, was recently
k He'd 10y his own slave, whom lie had obtained
by marriage, and who disllked 10 live with him.
The St. Louis Republican Of The 9Th sn =: Z" He
struck his muster over the head with rail knock.
ell him down, and with his masters pocket
knife cut his throat FROM ear to ear. lie then ran
To his mistress with the knife IN his hand, and lold
her that somebody had killed his master. lie has
confessed all about about it. We are informed
that the excitement was very great, and a meet
ing was held, at which proposition was made
aud lost by few votes to burn him. tie is IN jail
Mt Bowling Green, awaiting his trial"
Young man lately committed to the Jail Of
Rockingham county Va charged with HE muir
der of his father has been tried hy an exaunin-
ing court in Harrisburg and acquitted The Re.
gister says This horrible affair, the killing OF
father by his son, was the result OF drunken irol
| ic, in which father. mother, and son were all en-
gagged! The father, il appears, mnde an attack
upon the son, who repealed the assault by striking
n blow with hoe, which stove in hls parents
sbul and laid him dead at his ieet The young
man has been acquitted by the laws of his coun-
try; but remurse and anguish must aud will tor
ture his spirits willie life, and thought and being
! last"
A lady in Buchertown, near Richmond, Va.
accidentally killed her chlld the other day bv hit
ting its head against beam while she was running
down cellar with the child in her arms
The Montreal Herald of Thursday says it is re-
ported in town that most distressing accident &C.
Cured at the Cedars on Monday evening, in con-
sequerce OF II severe gale during which n num-
her of rats were destroyed, AMI the rumour is
that about fifty lives have been lost. We have
not heard the PARTICULARS, and hope that the intel
! ligcnce received in town has been exaggerated.
From al that we can learn, there is no doubt
bui that serious loss of property and human life
has been sustained, but we fervenlly trust that
they will prove TO be less than what we have sta
ted.
DISTRESSING .4ccident--We learn from the Que
bee Gazette oil the I7tlI inst, that most distress
sing accident occurred that morling at about ] |
o'clo k. A large mass of Cape Diamond, with
the vail from the Governors garden, TO the base
Of til, Citadel gave why. and buried under mas
SEES oil stone and earth the houses in Chompain
street, opposite the custom house. About build
ings in all are destroyed. Part of the inmates
were at work, but it is supposed that between 90
and 80 persons were in the house. Thirteen dead
bodies have been taken from the RUNS Some
ware alive aud sent TO The hospital
The Montreal Courier of the 18th ndds the fol-
| lowing:
A friend who arrived from Quebec Yesterday,
has informed us that when he left Mt half past
o'clock OIL Monday evening, % bodies had been
recovered from the ruins, IL or Is OF which were
dead most of them so much difigured and Inu e.
Tinted that they could scarcely he recognised from
their features.
Z. 6. The Quebec Gazette Of the 10ih sums up
the awful calamity ms follows: dead 96-sayed
go not found g."
Duei-'rho long talked of duel between r.
Wickffr, Jr aud e. NJ. Ciay, (wlo is only dis
tnnt relation to H. Clay took place opposite Lou
isvillc on the l:};h. They only exchanged one
shot with pistols at thirty feet, when the seconds
inierposcd, aud tie mater wns adjusted.
Il FrigMfn Collision al .Sen-The packet shi
SusquehannalI, Cnpt. j. w. Mierrken, arrived al
this port yesterday from Liverpool but in dis
nbed condition. II appears that oil The 9Th inst
during strong gale from the N. W.. and while
she was going at the rate OF eight knots an hour
under reefed topsails, vessel was observed i'm :
medniely Oh the larbonrd how. The helm was
brought up in order 10 avon Il collision aud by
this act the Susquehannah was brought iminedi.
ncly in contact with another vessel on the oil CT
bow. She was discovered too late to avoid a
crash, which took pnce under circumstances trI-
~ alarming The stranger vessel, after the first
shock, slowed round, passed Immediately by the
side of the Susqnellannah, and Captain NJ. states
that he was unable 10 discover any person on
board lie canno. say VIII ther she went down
or not. One of The hands says ihut he saw her
masts fall. Tho Susquelnnnnh considerably
injured. Capt. Nj. reports having seen several
lslhilS OF lc' anu having pasSeil ietWeel TWO al
The distance of about three hundred yards Phil
Ing, of Saturday,
The 81. Louis .Murderers.-We learn from the
late ST. Louis Bulletin, that Madison, "a slave
owned in New Orlrans) the principal in the re-
cent murders al ST. Louis, has been secured
Bloody Scenes. The last ST. Augustine Herald
after nnIIcing the cold. bluoded assassination Of
Cen Reid, in TalluhasSe, states TINT gren excite
meut existed, and that there appeared some dis
position to wres, the murderer from the hands o
Justice. Ia postscript, il adds: ave learn that
the sheriff of Leon county was compelled t.
shoot man, who is expected not 10 recover, and
that Harris, the city mnrsInl, in another affair
was nearly cut 10 pieces hy uan named Ro
gers
Hon Asa Child Of Norwich, Conn. who wiz.
appointed hy Juckson, ID strict Attorney for Con
necti"ut, and who was Loco Foco candidate fol-
Elecor last fall, has nbSc0nded, aud was las
seen on Tuesday in Philadelphia, probably on hi,
way 10 Texas. He always bore the cha acter o
an honest man ill these disclosures. Tie periure,
himself by swearing TO false accounts He die
not peculnte, but iasifed on his books 10 between
twenty and thirty thousand dollars. The Nor
witch and Worcester Railroad Company, however
did not lose one penny by his fraud; for his fam
lily connections, being wealthy and respectable
made up the deficit ilnmediately-so that, in fact
the Company found themselves richer by the dis
covery OF his villanies than before. Bost. .fids.
iDS Harrisburgh, Pa, was thrown into quite 4
state OF excitement on Friday, the 18th, by the ap
prehension of young man about fifteen years
age, who had been endeavorng TO induce some o
his associates to join him in a plot 10 shoot thu
keeper oil the State Treasury, rifle his pockets o
the keys, and then rob the department. Tn,
young man committed on tho testimony o
those 10 whom he had communicated his design