The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1844-02-01
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
Another Dreadful AGairssA husband
Murdered by his wifes


lasL evening, was panied with the repor
OF dreadful murder near Paramount O
husband by the hands of his wife. Tn,
parties Implicated are all Irish, aud of tn,
most dlssoulc aud depraved character
having been engaged 10 ssipation fol
several days. The murdered man is
named Domlnck Sweeney, and resided
Ia FalrvIew street. The murder wa.
committed between five aud six o'clock
and The instrument used, shoemaker.
KNIFE the slabs were six or eight il
number, and appeared to have been deal
with considerable force. The deceased
was young man, not having been mar.
r,ed over Ia months, and Shoemaker by
trade.
His wife when unsigned to prison
had an infant eight months old 10 her
arms The father and mother of the
wretc he'd woman have also been arrested
}and imprisoned, as being concerned in
the murder; and the police are in search
OF brother who is SAID 10 have been
present when the blows were inflicted. -
Considerable excitement prevails in the
neIghborhood otthe sad tragedy, hundreds
having visited The dwelling of the deceas
ed during the morning. The Coroner's
request was, that the murdered man
came TO his death by wounds inflicted
with sharp instrumepr in several places,
by his wife. ar his aoite and others un-
knOWn." IL is certainly painful TRACE.
dy, and one which, like most others, can
be traced to the mournfui effects of Rum !
The R.v. E. X. AVERY RIDDEN ON
RAIL. Harrls5urgb, Midnight, jan
l8.-This evening, about half after ten
O'Clock, the citizens were alarmed by The
greatest row, perhaps, Harrsburqh ever
witnessed. The Rev e. *. Avery made
his appearance at the Washington Tenn
perance Society, and was called upon to
! address the meeting by DR.. Stauzburv, of
! Is adford, and no sooner was that m Jtlon
made than Col. Albert Clark, from ynur
city, gave notice that This man was the
murderer of Miss Cornell" &c., and in.
stantIy about Il dozen of young men seiz
ed The reverend gentleman and run him
oUt-procured rail, on which they rode
him through several streets, and finally
gave him ducking in the canal. Bv
THIS time High Constabes Bostck aud
Scott, hearing of the riot, arrived with
Il posse,and rescued the R4v. Sir, perhaps,
from a waterv grave.-Correspondence
PAaia. Chronicle
HoLLAND.-DeaM Of King William
Frederick the Third The ex-king OF
Holland, Cour of Nassau, died suddenly
at Berlin, at half past eigh: o'clock in the
morning of the l2'h uIt. He had been
engaged in business that very morning,
and was found by his side de-camp sitting
in his own chair, struck by fit of apo
pleXy, and dead. The deceased Prince
was born in The year l772, and was there
fore at the time Of his death 10 the 7ls
year of his age, He married, in 1891,
the daughter of Frederick William H. Of
Prussia; and his eldest son is the present
King OF Holland, WHO was born in 1892
In his lavor the late King abdicaed.
when he resolved 10 contract a inorganic
marriage with the Countess D'Oultre-
mont, Belgian and Catholic, who sue
ceeds TO oHr-haIt his immense fortune oil
&l2 600 600 sterling.
EXECUTION OF ADAM HORN. Adam
Horn, Alias A udrew tIeIlmun, convicted
during the las: term of BatImore County
Court of the murder OF his wifi, Main-
do Horn, was executed last week in the
yard OF B,jtimore CITY, aud County Jail
Ine corpse was then placed in coffin
and conveyed TO IA room III the Jail; where
9a,vanlc experiments were successfully
performed on it, alter which it was given
to the son. who came forward and claim
ed it for burial There were, most pro.
baby, ten thousand persons among
whom we nollced many Women--on the
surrounding emlueRces. who witnessed
the execution. Ia the Jail enclosure
were perhaps thousand more Mass.
Spy.
The MURDER.-Caroine Sweeney,
the wife OF the murdered man mentioned
yesterday, William Gillette AMI his wife,
her father aud mother, have been fully
committed to prison, the former 10 answer
the charge Of murder, and the two latter
as being accessory hereto. The brother,
who is from New York. has not yet been
arrested and it is believed he too was
parlIcipalor in the horrid tragedy. The
wife does not appear TO manifest any con-
triton in view OF her crime, and is repre-
sented as being woman of strong nerve,
capable of overthrowing her deceased
husband with perfect ease.
RESIGNATION OF SENATOR SPRAGuE.
We learn from the Providence journal.
that the Hon. William Sprague has re-
signed his seat in the Senate of the U. S.,
In CONSEQUENCE of The sudden ard melan