The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-04-16
Fact and Fancy.

OF the treaty OF 1892 and expresses hope that SO
desirable object may be accomplished.
The same paper also gives the annexed strange
staiement-
"rhe following letter has been furnished MS for
publication by the gentleman to whom 1t was direct
ed The names We leave blank We are very I'M
willing Ia pursue any course calculated TO cause fur
Their excitement in the Cherokee Nation. We
nevertheless feel II our duty 10 give such items Of
guard
I'VE have long since despaired of anything like
union among the dlscordan materia IS OF The unior.
tunate Cherokee people. Their feuds are OF old and
bitter standing. Why is our Government Indifferent
to subject which threatens many valuable lives!
Reports such as these are OF daily occurrence
'BEAruE's PRAIRIE. CHERoKEE NATION,
February 26, 1913 :
"Mr -; Perhaps you are aware of what is
going on in our country; il not, you can Judge for
yourself from these lines. have been candldly in
formed, two days since, that there Is company of
twenty men and leader, IN each district, 10 travel
and attend and watch certain places OF nights Their
orders are, not TO be seen in daylight, their pur
pose is the beheading o. certain individuals, who
are deemed treaty mind, that supposed to call
your house. There is no doubt Of This fact One
company passed my house last night about eight or
nine o'clock, all armed with guns. They passed the
road In much silence, but were seen by the boys"
ARMY AND Navy observation-disclosures April 5
Passed Assist. Sur. F. j. Rutter, frigate Macedo-
man Assist. Sur. Joshua Huntington frigae Ma
cedonlan; Assist. Surg; A. J; Bowie, steamer MIS-
Mid Tenant Mcfanabas S frisa ne' Macedonian
Masters Mate, VIM II Morse, receiving ship, n.
York ; LIST Assist Engineer Hiram Sanford, detach-
ed from steamer Mlssourl-Aprll ComGander
Joel Abbot, command of the soop Decatur; Purser
Warrington, jr., soop Decatur: Purser Arthur
w Upsaur, brig Truxton; Mid. VIM. T; Burwell,
sloor ST Louis; LIST Assist Engineer Danl b Mar
tin, steamer Missouri; 2d Assist Engineer Naylor
=. DAVIS steamer Missouri; 81 Assist. Engineer
VIM, T, Mercier, steamer Missouri --April7. Lieut.
A b Davis receiving ship, New York Lieut.. J; T:
McDonough, order to frigate Macedonian revoked
on account of i'll health; Lieut.; John J. Gasson,
frigate Macedonian; Lieut.. Alexander Gibson,
navy yard New York Sur. Geo. w. Codwlse. rem
devious, Norfolk, vice Sur ] Cowdery, detached
Md, VIM Reed Low, receiving ship, New York
April Professor B. MCGOWAN. detached from
Vandala April 10 Lieut.. VIM. B Whiting, fri
gate Macedonian; Mid. Hunter Davidson, steamer
Missouri /; Sailnaker Isaac d. Freeman, steamer
Missouri; Carpenter Christopher Jordan, steamer
Nj sour; P. Mid ] A Doyle, detached from store
ship Lexington on account of i'll health April IL
Com 5. w Downing, command of ship Fairfield,
now In the Mediterranean, wee Blgelow, relieved
with SIX mouths leave ct absence; Lieut.. John
Centee, sloop Decatur, Norfolk; Boatswain VIM
Brady order TO sloop ST. Louis revoked, and to
sumo his duties al the navy yard New York.
PRoMorIoNs. Lieut. John Pope, to be a COM
msndrr, from the Is h Feb. lS43, vice Boerum, de-
ceased; P. Mid. Joseph H. Adams. to be "a lieuten-
AM. from the Is h Feb 1913 vice Pope, promoted.
REslGNATloNs-Apri g. Gunner James G. Davis ;
Mid Gasp rd De BUYS.
ARMY -ORDERs lsT ARTmLERY.-Lieut. l. S
X Reeves, 10 be relieved from duty at the Military
Academy. after The June examination. lfl-s
Leave for four months granted 10 Capt Lloyd J.
Bea
Mr.. AUDUBON, THE NATURALIST This dsiin
gu'shed and very accomplished naturalist John J.
Aud bon, Esq, reached This city two or three DAYS
since on on his way Ie The Rocky Mountains, in
and enthusiastic nauralists accompanying him in
his most Interesting tour. We learn that they take
passage in the American Fur Company's steamboat,
the Omega, and will leave about the 10Th inst Sir
William Drummond Stewart also takes passage in
the Omega for the Upper Mlssouri.-St Louis Dem.
Apru3
HoRRlELE-The Norwich Courier gives a briet
report OF trial for mansaushter, revealing an act
OF barbarity almost incredible The prisoners were
David Frost and his wife Mary. 1t appeared in evil
dence that the prisoners and the parents of the
child lived in the same tenement. That they met
IN the apartment occupied by Frost Saturday
evening; that alteration took place between
The women that Mary the prisoner seized Sarah
Gardner, tore her clohes forced her out OF doors,
and took from her her child, which she retained
When she forced the mother out Of the door, she
told her she would burn up her child In one hour
The mother returned, iorc-d open the outside door,
went TO her own room ana found her child lying in
front OF the fire, in the agonles of death. II had
been placed so near the Goals to to death
The Jury found Mary guilty, and she was sentenced
totwo yearslmprsonment In the State prison.
FATAL AccDENT.-Charles Pease formerly citi-
zen OF this county, but more recently resident of
New York, was, we understand, thrown from his
stanv killed. This makes the third brother out of
The number OF SIX, who settled IN Yazoo county
several years ago. who has come TO his death by
violent means Henry Pease, the eldest OF them,
met his death IN the summer OF 1910. by being vio-
lenty thrown from vehicle j. NJ, a Younger
BROTHER was shot dead in rencontre last fall and
now Charles, whose business in Mississippi was TO
adjust the affairs of his deceased brother James
M rs, by the inscrutlble hand of Providence as
suddenly usbered into eternity Thus by this un.
forseen stroke OF an all wise God is the hearth OF
father made desolae. Their father resides in Utica
N. Benton, Mss. Banner, ApriI.
NAVIGATION ON LAKE ERIE The ice in the no yho
is wearing away last, and cannot hold out much
longer From the foot of Commercial street up
WARD II is completely rddled, and no longer safe TO
cross upon Near the shpyard the channel is entire
~ Tree Tor several rods, with strong outward cur
rent. couple OF days more and we hope TO see an
unrestricted harbor: The ice in the lake is also
much weakened, and partakes of the general thaw
Two persons tell through yesterday in crossing from
canada, one OF whom lost his horse. -Pufolo Com
r, NAVY The U. S. store ship Lexington, Lieut.
Com. Glendy, dropped down from the Navy Yard
10 the anchorage off the Hospital yesterday, and
will sail for New York with the first wind No, folk
Herald, AWH Is.
ARRIVAL OF TRooPs.-The schr Stephen e. Francis,
Rose, arrived at Charleston Saturday evening
last from 81. Augustine, having on board compa nv
f, U. 5 Artillery, destined tor Fort Moutrie in
that harbor, under the command of Lieut.. j F
Reynolds. Norfolk Herald, Ap,d 49,
A JUST SENTENCE.-George Godfrey of this CITY.
VINO was tired and convicted al the last September
term OF the Superior Court for committing rape on
his ilegltimate daughter, little girl OF less than
elgh' years OF age, was brought up at the present
term OF the Court for sentence, and sentenced to
confinement IN the Connecticut State Prison during
ms natural liie.-Norlcich Courier.
PROVING AN ALIBI.-WIlliam billiard, of Lowell
who was arrested In Boston the other day for bur
g larry, has been released he having proved an abb
clear and distinct. Mr.. Watson, keeper of the
House OF Correction in East Can bridge swore thai
HiIard was IN the House of Correction on the
night OF the robbery, serving out a sentence for
stealing.
SAD DIsAsrER.-On the 10Th inst. the DWELLING
house OF John Vanderbilt at Perth Ambov 7
together with all his furniture, entirely destroy
ed by bre SO sudden was the origin and rapid the
progress OF the flames, that in hour the consumr-
non was complete, and even from the wardrobe OF
his family nothing was saved but the articles with
Wrrn At lie 1,I..tI,uI