New-York daily tribune., 1842-09-08


the Wclland Canal. They continued their quar-
rels even in prison, and to prevent murder il was
necessary to separate the Consaught men and the
Corkonians The Chronicle farther says
The interior Of this district has been in q dread
full state and from all hear is very little better
vet Bands of dangerous men armed, are prov
ling about in all directions, torcibly entering TIE
dwellings Of the inhabitants, and stealing proper
ty of all descriptions, more particularly taking
away all the arms they lay thar hands upon.
One bad feature of the matter is that many oil
them will not work, for we know several instances
of employment with reasonable wnges having
been offered and refused.
py The vessel sunk By the schooner Emiiy ir
the collision on Lake Erie was tho Acorn, having
oa board forty three emgrants. They were landed
at Cleveland a subscription was raised for thenl,
and Messrs. Winslow s. Co. generously offered
them a free passage to Chicago. The young man
drowned was named Dilloe, from near London
The Cleveland Herald says:
The scene OF dismay and distress on the inter-
locked vessels beggars description. All was dark
asss-crashing ut strained tiubcrs-dashag OF
angry waters-screams OF terrified women and
it was expected both vessels would make the tata!
plunge together--the women ard children wcr,
huddled to- osether out of the way OF the men, wh"
were straining every nerve to disengage the Emily
from her sinking companion-and soon after the
waters engul phed the Acorn, an examination wa
made to see who among the late happy compan.
were cefined within her, What fears, VIVA! hopes,
and what intensity of feeling were concentrated IL
that moment 1t was found that parents bad not
been parted, nor had single member OF the little
family Hocks been taken! The narration OF the
scene BY the intelligent head of English tamliy
was moving indeed. In his own case, the evening
had been spent by himself wife, and seven chill
dren in talking over old familiar things OF their
native village'-thc incidents of the long voyage
now nearly terminated-the plans OF futura lie
and happiness in a new Western home-and ali
that pleasant and familiar chit-chnt which keeps
bright the chain around the afiectionae circle II
was q sort of travellers anniversary, tor just IL
weeks that evening had fitted by since parting
from the cid homestead and its endearments. The
kiss and good mig ght' were exchanged and all re-
tired to rest bmoyant with expectation and hope
The crash came" Missus and my little ones"
said he "xere cast almost naked into the boat
my worldly goods all swallowed uP-but,
thank God, our lives were spared.
Observation-Disclosures PREsERyATIoN OF
HUMAN LIFE.-A cloud passed over the Court
House of Princess Anne County on Tuesday even
ing, heavily charged with electricity, which struck
the tavern house occupied bv Col. Whitehurst.
Our informant states that he, with three or four
other persons were sitting at the supper table in
the back room of the tavern, at the time, and the
peals of thunder were awful and terrific. Sudden
" he felt if he had been shot through the head,
and he lost all sense of existence. From this
trance, which had probably continued only g few
moments he awokc be..ildercd, and as his eyes
fell upon his companions they appeared like so
many corpses they had all been affected by the
electric shock like himself, bU, not of the
company had received the slightest injury. The
lightning had struck the chimney of the front room
and rent it asunder from top to bottom, tearing of
the manre piece, hurling it the lower end of the
room and scattering fragments and rubbish in all
directions A stream of the fluid at the same
time struck the chimney of the back rocn and
partly knocked it down, but passed off without
entering the house. The main shaft passed out q.
the back door to the kitchen, 30 feet from the
house, footway of boards serving as conductor
knocked down the cook and ker two children,
upset her utensil. and made its escape through
back window Norfolk Herald.
A MUKDEgE. ARREsTED.-On the 18th of Jan
uary, 1888, ohm Sherrod, a stage driver, was
killed few miles from Stockton, Alabama, and
the q. S. Mail robbed. A few days since, infor-
nation was received at Mobile that there was
man in the United States service at Pensacola,
named BENJAMIN Whitney, against whom there
was almost certain evidence of participation in
the crime. He was Immediately arrested and
brought over to Mobile. The facts which led to
II EolI 10 Pc
sacsa. some one of his fellow-laborers accused
hin Of cowardce To this he replied by boasting
that when the mail robbery in question was com
mitted, Larkin held pistol TO the head of Shcr-
rod, but exhibited some repugnance to firing IT,
when he snatched it from the hards of that rascal
and blew out the brains of the mail carrier The
prisoner was unable to rebut any of these facts,
and there is hardly doubt that he is entirely
guilty Of the terrible crime laid to his charge
Boston Times
DuELLING.-A writer in the Democratic Re-
view, gives an account of a method OF fighting
duel, adopted by gentleman, member of the
New-York Legislature, distinguished as well for
his wit ard humoI as for his talents and sound de-
mocracy. Receiving challenge, be expressed
his readiness to accept IL with the privilege of
choice of ground and weapens,-which after some
considerable correspondence and diplomacy, con
Quoted with great gravity on his part, were CON
ceded by his impatient adversary. The prelinin-
aries at length adjusted, he fixed the place of en-
counter on the opposite banks OF a certain stream
in his County, (Sr. Lawrence,) the weapons being
Anxious to accommodate the op-
posite party, he expressed himself, at the same
time time, willing to use pistols in the following
manner: the two principals to stand back to back
on the top of sharp conical hill indicated by him,
to walk each forward in straight line down the
opposite descenrs to the bottem. and then, at the
n,ar3 e., I