Litchfield enquirer., 1843-05-11


 has bren recovered. The affair caused tre- mendouS excitement there.
 P. s. Allen c. Bass, the Teller pro tenn. of the Company, has also been arrested as an accomplice in the robbery.-B. FGrnaerA
 HORRIBLE MURDERS.
 A most barbarous murder of Dhole fana tly near Port Golden, in Warren Co, N. j., was rerpetrated on Monday last. The head of the family was Mr. John B. Parke, an aged single man who was in the habit of boosting that he had large quantities of spe. cie on hand. In his house lived John Cart ner, who worked the farm, his wife, whQ was Parke's sister, four children and ser. want. On Tuesday morning the neighbors were thrown into consternation by hearing that all these persons except the maid-sef: want, who was not at home tho preceding night, were murdered. On reaching tha spot the most dreadful spectacle was pre- sented. Cartner, who appears to have been decoyed out of the house, was found par. tially thrown into lime kiln, his head lite- rally beaten to fragments with rail. which marks of the use that had made of it. On entering the house, MT. Parke was found in his bed dead, with his throat cut from ear to ear. His sister, Mrs. Cartner, and the iu. fant 0t her side, were in like manner murder. ed, and little son of or years old, stab. bed in several places--and only not dead.--. There were two other children, but they slept in distant part of the house, unknowR probably to the murderers. The house was rif1ed completely, but what amount of plum. der was obtained, no one could yet coniec. ture. T he news spread rapidly, the coun. try is raised, and handbills are already cir- culated in all directions, offering, in the name of surviving relatives, 5000 for the arrest and conviction of the murderers.-. Plunder, undoubtedly, was the motive, and universal opinion ascribed the horrid deeds to strangers, who must have come from a distance. As there must have been two or three concerned, the hope seems reasonable that clue will be found, and due punish. ment awarded to this unparalleled masacre.
 ". '. Tribune.
 ExEcuTroN-White, the murderer of his father was hanged at Batavia last week, ac. cording to sentence His conduct from tho moment of his arrest to that of his death seems to us inexplicable. Never for an in. stant did he exhibit the slightest symptoms of remorse, contrition, or even regret for tho unnatural crime which he has SO fearfully expiated. On trial his counsel urged insan. ity in his defence; but he ridiculed this defence, and wrote out explanations of all was based, with an apparently earnest and sincere desire to convince the court and ju. ry that the pretence of insanity was mere. ly device on the part of his lawyers. Ho confessed the crime and sought to justify it.; and even during tho last hour of his exist. ence, he declared with perfect coolness thaS if his father were living he would yet kill him if possible. While in prison he wrote out sketch of his life, and his dying speech, which he read upon tho scaffold with tho utmost indifference. Throughout his life he was very zealous in his profession of athe. ism, and up to the moment of his death, de- clared his hatred of Christianity. During his confinement previous to his execution, he consented that church service should be held in his cell, as he said he liked to heaF the ladies sing; and at the request of rel. ative he permitted clergyman to pray with he employed himself in examining the con- struction of the scaffold, the adjustment of the rope, sc. He requested of the jailer that the shoes in which he was to be hung might be made large, as he did not wish them to hurt his feet, and snid that if he had plenty of money he would be glad to live longer, but as it was he did not care.--. When told by the sheriff that he had but three minutes to live, he manifested not tho slightest emotion, and was swung of in tho same state of utter indifference. We do nos know that White was insane but his con. duct seems to us to have been, from first Co last, perfectly inexplicable on any of tho ordinary principles of human nature.-Ibid. JOHN c. KEMBLE, formerly editor of tho Troy Budget, and member, of our Stato Senate, died in the Insane Asylum at Wor. cester, Mass, on the l4th ut. aged about 50. Mir. K. was ruined by connection with Barstow, defaulting and absconding cashier of the Commercial Bank of Albany the development of which compelled him to abandon his paper ana resign his scat in the Senate. He removed to Wisconsin, but his reputation followed him, and a sense of his downfall soon stung him to madness For two years past, the wreck of one of the ablest Van Ruren editors, and most aspiring politicians in the State, has been confined in the lunatic asylum at Worcester.-I6id. SoAp SUDs.-There is no better manure than dirty soap suds; and there is not . farm house in the country, but produces enough of it in the course of year. 10 manure gar. den two or three times oyer. Dirty suds, aE. ter washing. is almost universally thrown away and wasted. Would it not be an i'm. proyement. aud show laudable economy in the good woman of the farm house. to have ie