Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1842-08-10
From the Ne,eport Rhode Islander.
SUICIDE.

dead. A coroner's jury was Immediately
summoned, and after investigating the cir
cumstances returned verdict Of suicide.
The slngularit. of the circumstances at
tending this melancholy event, induces US
to present them in detail to our readers.
We are infaNmed that his name was
Pliny Warner, and that he belonged some
where in New York state. He came on
here from New York. with out any bag
gage about the Goth Of June, Gin the height
Of the war; and stated that he came alter
a man for whom he had endorsed, and who
he believed to be in DORIS camp, and pro-
posed TO 60 there after him. but was dis
suaded from doing SO. The day after his
arrival he was arrested, as suspicious
character, and confined four or five days
and then liberated. He returned TO the
Park House where he first put up, and, we
are told, showed some money, and offered
to pay for his board for few days IN adj
vance, and stated that his baggage was 10
be sent fromNew York. Subsequently he
showed letter that lie had received, sta
ting that his baggage had been sent on,
but was not allowed to be landed, and had
been taken back again.
He was last seen on Sunday between IL
and II O'Clock, sitting on the ramparts at
Fort Green, and about 3 O'Clock he was
found dead. One end OF his neck cloth
was fastened by sllp-knot round his neck
and the other TO q branch of thorn bush
about two feet from the ground. His feet
and hands rested on the side of the ditch,
which is sloping, and the weight of his bo-
dy, with the face down, bearing on his
neck, caused strangulation. Under him
was found the blade Of common case
knife, ground TO point, and fixed in n
wooden handle, with which he attempted
TO stab himself ia the stomach, but had not
inflicted dangerous wound.
The writing in his pocket book was in
an easy flowing hand, and gave evidence
that the writer was we'll educated. 1t ap-
pears all to have been written Immediately
before, and in contemplation Of his death.
The first part, on the last two pages, is rs
follows, commencing with the quotation,
"Teach me to feel another's woe" Pope.
"To feel for another-iti is wrong. How
ever hattering it may be to humanity, in
the details of life we find the error If
they feel for another VIC must support thcir
Affections. Then when our property is
gone we look for others to feel, but find
nothing bu, ingratitude. That makes Us
misanthropis,s. Sclfshncss and ambition
are the true source Of happiness. 1t is
mistake, fatal mistake, to feel for others,
because in return, when in need we do not
find it reciprocotcd. This world is selfish,
and it cannot be for man ITO
"Fecl for another in distress"
When we have hedged ourselves within a
fortune, then if the intercourse with man
has not rendered us callous we may feel
The life and death of the writer proves
the fallacy of that sentiment ." To feel"
&c. 1t doubly proves it:
First, have been forever treated with
ingratitude.
Second, am forced by circumstances
TO treat others n, this stage Of my life in
the same manner.
"To die poor is q stigma, let the virtues
be what they may. "To feel" bah"
Across the first leaf, or cover, is writ
ten "P. Warner, May, 1872" and under
il, lcngthways Of the book,
"Oh God forgive. My friends forgive
I" never Intentionally injured a human
being
Sunday
"Let tho mantle Of insanity be thrown
over ALL"
His remains have been decently inferred
in the common burying ground.
Western Women."-I saw there eou
pie Of western beauties. The south produ
ces elegant women, and tho valley Of The
Mississippi splendid ones. There is an
orlglnalty-a racincss-nmong the wo-
men of the west, which is cminently attrac-
tive. They touch the confines of cviIza-
ton and bar5a rism with such Il daring
grace, that the precise pctits matrcs Of tho
Atlantic are thundcrstruck or turned into
gaping statues at their fascinating witness
and enchanting audac'ty. A western or
southern belle fresh from the woods, is
scaled book to an Atlantic dandy. He
cannot understand her; he has not tho KEY;
she is beyond his vision. To know them
properly, to estimate them accurately, we
must have been lost on the AIIcghanics,
shpwrecked on n foreign coast, drank
sherbet with the Turk, tasted the river
Jordan. or been killed and eaten by the
pirates. 1t is quito distressing TO see the
atlantic bellies pick their way through ,hc
crowded drawing room. They some times
stand on the outer edge OF the crowd, and
desparingly TO friend at the other end OF
the room, as one would look upon the spires
Of Cincinnati from the pinnaclcs ofthc Allie
ghanies, or traveller look across the
Arabian deserts. western belle dasbos
through the crowd as she would through,
ing impedes her. She makes manners,
and controls the rulers of society as sEo
through Throwing dandies
aside as ship does the pillows. The
southern lady glides like sylph; full Of