The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-01-15
New YoRK, January -, 1874

am very happy to inform you that Pomeroys
trunk has been found, and the robber discovered
You will find all the details in the newspapers of the
day, and the perusal Of them should teach all not to
be too hasty, in suspccng to be guilty, who are
innocent, and whose fame is dearer than life
confess that was among the thousands who min
ged in an unjust and most damning suspicion, and
now, thank God that the guilty has been discovered,
to the honorable exculpaon Of the honest the yir-
tuous, and the meritorious. | do not know that the
whole story of the robbery has yet been told the
probability 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 stree, Presbyterian
Tabernacle, might have been expected, and as was
anticipated by every who has ever paid any at
ienton to these ecclesiastical wars has already as.
sumed the attitude Of personal and bitter alterca-
ton EPithets that would better become the stews
than the pulpit have already been banded 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 are ever TO be deprecated.
story, purporting that the notorious Epbraim X.
Avery, who was some years since charged with the
murder ola faetS-y girl in Rhode Island had died in
Ohio, and on his death-bed confessed that he was
guilty, was, week two since, started in an East
paper, and has gone the rounds of the press Mr.
Avery, at the time he ives charged with the murder
Of the girl, a member Of the Methodist Episcopal
church, and in charge Of small chapel and con
grega,ion in Rhode Island. The affair, you will re
collect produced imp cccdcnted excitement through
out the Union. He was acquitted OF the charge aud
afterwards returned 10 the pulpi, for a short period
The story Of his death aud confession is 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
tleman 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 .4rioi and yieuriemps were
here, has faded away, and the unfortunate luaahc,
having resumed their reason, see how scientif-
| csly they were gammoned and humbugged The
flats and .harps unite in laughing at each other and
the story OF ole Bull has been done up in thousand
harlequin songs, and whlstled and sung by the boys
and negroes in the public tboroughfarcs
| The thing has been done up, most admirably IN
an Extravaganza, at Mitcbells Olympic Theatre,
and nightly repeated to crowded and delighted au
diences. The derote,s Of Ole Buu and 1iot and tho
rest, now sec how easily they we're bamboozled,
whilst they listen to the srangest sounds and noise,
tina, ever agonized cat.gt and rosn, produced by a
fiddler al the Olympic and who is so exact a copyist
Of Ole Bull, that the Norwegian risbman, "if he were
TO listen to II, could not st the difference and amid
his bo'heration, would exclain, like the man in the
| play