New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-09-01

southern crlize II will be OF service IN estuia'
ting Alright the results of the voyage.
u A medical gentleman of This city, a few
DAYS since visited the Lunatic Asylum on Black
we'll, Island for the purpose Of making some IN
ouiries as to the mode of treatment OF those IN
fortunate individuals who are NJ present confined
in tha, department of our City Government
After being shown into the department assigned
for the care OF the male portion of the Asylum, be
was guided into the part allotted for the females
where he was accosied by an elderly lady who was
in the highest degree Of insanity, when the follow
inc conversation took place between our yisi'er and
the lady in question.
Laay--sir: approach me not am the wife
of Mr.. Tyler. President OF ihe uni,ed States.
risiter-Ah, How is CAPTAIN Tyler
Laay-Dont Captain him. sir Mister Tyler,
il y.u please, sir.
rieiter--I beg your pardon, Madam. How ia
MIST, Tylcri--ana wien do YOU expect to sS'
him
l.odg-My husband is we'll. .ir--veryweli. The
President. sir, will he hcra in few days. He is
IN .isn the Tariff. without Disribution, and then,
cir. he will come here. He Is he .6ttest man IN
he country 10 grace these halls, and 'caen ne
eorres shall be haprg.
HfAR Nh TYtxR.-In 1889. john TYLER, in
the Legislature OF Virginia used the following
Language;
There is bu, one course left her (thc State OF
Virgtna) to pursue, and that Is 10 demand hfr
equal proportion II the proceeds II me pubic
!aads. Here is fund held in common Tor the
benefit OF the Stntes-tAe deeds u eessi0a so de-
clare. and common sense decides that Con-
,yess, limited and restrained By the Constitution
10 ME acquisition 81 ten mates SQUARE, tor the
seat EFF Government, can only acquire AID hot9
lands ~ the character 81 a h'rsiee. fer the 6cne-
nj Of those cbo arr JOINT partners N tie Gor.
ct7.ment /, Is high time for TO put IN our
claim to equal participation IN The benefits
arising from this common fund
HoRnp TRAGEpY.-A correspondent OF the
Savannah Republican, writing from Monroe, IN
Wilton County Ga, under date OF August 90,
gives The following account OF a tragedy of almost
incredible atrocity
"Mr Jerdon Harris murdered his wife and
mother.in-lnw, by cutting the throat OF the former
IN most shocking manner, and beating TO death
the latter with large stick or pale. Mr.. Alfred
Wmey The son Of the old lady, and the sister OF
Yrs Harris, living within quarter or hall a mile
at the place soon heard OF the murder OF ils
mother and sister, and went over TO arrest tarrs
He found him in the house. nnd his sister lying
dead in the ward, with her throat cut from car to
ear. and his mother lying near, not quite dead
Harris was armed with tIHc, and would not al,
nod q
his dead sister anu diving mother Whaey being
unarmed went of nd gathered some OF the
neighbors. three or ioar in number and went back.
armed with guns nad pistols, to take Harris
Harris swore tha, he would not lie taken, aud wa
trying 10 get chance to shoe, those that had
| come to take him, when Whaley shot AT but
missed him. Harris then came out OF the house
with his gun cooked, when Whaey again shot and
killed him on the spot, of the balls passing
rhrough near the heart. The fumily. oa both
sides, are very respectable, aud possessed of CON
siderable property
% The LADIES' COMPANION for September is
as, issued, containing original articles by L. h.
Sigourney, T. c. Embury, n T. Willis, AID
eleven others. We have not yet had time to read
them.
the country in relation to the United States, min
isters wers despatched by Mexico TO all the South
American Republics soliciting succour. They
held the following language
I" Tint the United States would conquer thi,
country, and unless you enable to resist such
aggrcssons as may be perpetrated by the United
States-she will proceed TO embrace in her mighty
grasp the whole of the Southern Continent"
Accordingly Columbia has agreed to furnish
1900 men, AND more pecunary aid. No answers
TO these propositions had been received from the
Republics.
The Fort at Vera Cruz has been put in COM
pIete order. Savannah Republican.
ME1rco--The Emblem, from Matamoras,
brings few items Of Mexican intelligence. Santa
Ana excessively earuged at Mr.. Webster's
letters to the insoent Bocanegra; but whether his
| anger will assume q substantial form, we do not
learn. The expedition of 1000 Mexican troops
TO the Texan frontier covertly going on. The
schooner Water Witch, from this port, and several
other vessels in the harbor of Vera Cruz had been
put in requisition as transports.
Considerable sums in silver are about to be
shipped from Tampco and Vera Cruz to New
Orleans The steamer Dee brought yesterday
$50, 900 to the house Of Lizard & Co.
N. @. Bee.
The MARY CARVER correspondent at
Castne writes that Capt. Robert Mcfarland, Of
that town, was sailing master OF schooner Mary
Carver, and is supposed to have been murdered
with the rest of the crew, on the coast of Africa
Letters dated March s6 were received from him
by the mail that brought news of the murder
on the Goth of April. Bost. Com.
ACCIDENT 1T A POWDER MILL.-On the 22d
inst, one of the wheel buildings of Messrs Loo
mis-, Hazard & Co.'S Powder Mills at Enfield,
Conn, while being cleaned out, took FIRE from
friction produced by the wheels being improperly