The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1844-01-15
New YoRK, January l3, 1874.

am very happy to inform you that Pomeroy's
trunk has been found, and the robber discovered ~
You will find all the details in the newspapers of the
day, and the perusa of them should teach all not to
be too hasty in suspecting to be guilty. who are
innocent and whose fame is dearer than life
confess that was among the thousands who min
gled in an unjust and most damnng suspicion and
now, thank God, that the guilty has been discovered,
to the honorable excupation Of the honest the vr-
tuous, and the meritorous. do not know that the
whole story Of thu robbery has re. been toid /; the
proh~Onlty is that much yet remains behind.
The theological controversy between DR.. VAIN
right, of ST. Johns Chapel Trinity Church, and the
Rev. Doctor Potts. of the Duane street Presbyterian
Tabernacle, as might hare been expected and as was
anticipated by every one who has ever paid any at
tentlon to these ecclesiastical wars, has already
sumed the attitude of personal and bitter aterca-
tion Epithets that would better become the stews
than the pulpit, have already been banded to the in
finite amusement of the inmates of the pot houses
and the unketing Saloons and to the deep regret and
modification of every friend Of virtue and religion
Such controversies ever to be deprecated
story, purporting that the notorious Ephraim K
Avery, who was some years since charged with the
murder of factory girl in Rhode Island had died in
Ohio, and his death bed confessed that he was
guilty. was, week or two since, started in an East
ern paper and has gone the rounds of the press Mr.
Avery, at the time he ives charged with the murder
Of the GIRL was member of the Methodist Episcopal
church. and was in charge of small chapel and con.
gregation in Rhode Island The affair, you will re.
collect, produced imp ecedented excitement through
out the Union. He was acquitted Of the charge, and
afterwards returned to the pulpit for short period
The story of his death and confession utterly false
and was undoubtedly manufactured by some one for
the purpose of sale and speculation. Mr.. Avery is
now living in Berkshire county, Massachusetts ; is
farmer; has never confessed anything; and has
maintained, as am informed by distinguished gen.
toman of the Methodist church. since he has retired
from the pulpit and the busy scenes of the world
Whether he was or was not.guilty Of the murder Of
Miss Cornell, the factory girl, he alone knows A
jury of his country, however acquitted him.
The music mama, that turned the heads OF thou
sands, when Ole Bull and .qrtot and yieuriemps were
here, has faded away and the unfortunate iunaiics
having resumed their reason, now how scientif-
cally they gammoned and hum5ugged. The
flats and sharps unite in laughing at each other, and
the story Of Ole Bull has been done up in thousand
harlequin songs, and whstled and sung by the boys
and negroes in the public thoroughfares.
The thing has been done up most admirably, in
an Extravaganza, at Mitches Olympic Theatre
and nightly repeated TO crowded and delighted au
diences The depotees Of ole Bull and .q,toi and the
rest, now see how easily they were bamboozled
whilst they listen TO the strangesl sounds and noises
that ever agonized cat-git and rosin produced by
fiddler at the Olympic, and who is so exact copyis
of Ole Bull that the Norwegian Irsbman 'if he we're
TO listen to it, could not "tt the difference" and amid
his botheraton, would exclaim, like the in the