The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-04-05
LATER FROM CHINA.

I LATER FROM CHINA. 4
| The ship Na,che1, Capt. Waterman, arrived yes
lerday from Canton, having made the passage IN &C.
veny-eght days. tho shortest passage BY several days,
| ever Inaue.
She sailed on The l%th of January, and ofI<eskuss
briggs intelliGr Tires weeks later than d1p
received by the overland mail, previous To Il stt
OF the Queen Of the West, by which It's inf An
! was received here. ID, Ito
| The news brought by this arrival is noi3t ~
Importance. The lady of Lieut. Governor "
had sailed for England. MA
| The captain Of a Spanish vessel recently arm TAI
Canton, reports that when fishing the EA. I Pu
dan shoaI In lat deg. 81 min. N. and long IN %.
81 mia. T. he discovered a chain leading irol he
reef 10 the water, following which the remains OF
a vessel were found In three fathoms at high wafer.
One Of the crew found piece OF silver, and on lar
hsr search money dollars and sycee picked up
TO the amount of $4,000, and also a chronome,er
and sextant The money was handed over 10 a mer-
camille house al Canton, TO await further invesiga'
tons. The wreck Is supposed 10 be that OF the
! Chrlsana Lost in 1912
Great disappointment was felt up 10 the 9Th al The
non-arrival Of the September and October mails IRON
England In Specializing on the causes Of this delay,
II had been suggested that war might have broken
out between England and France, whereupon the
Hong Kong Editors proceed demonstrate that they,
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bend from the French. These speculations were
somewh hat disturbed by the ARRIVAL Of the missing
mails
The Hong Kong Gazette gives list of the minis
tiers and influential statesmen Of China. The list
comprises above twenty persons, Of whom htla chang
all the prime minister, much the most important
and Influential man OF the Empire. The Manichoos
are in The ascendency, and possess far greater pro
portion OF the honors and emoluments than al any
previous period.
1 a. A A.. -, agatya
another lnstsment OF the indemnity money-il was
said 50 900 900.
The pirates were still busy in their depredations.
The arrival of he American whaler Puueia's to
reh, at Hong kong, IS noticed and the hope ardent
ly expressed that she will prove the precursor Of
feet seeking the habor for similar purposes. Eabo-
rate arg umens urged To show that Hong Kong Is
far better haIbor for American ships TO ret than the
| Sandwich Islands.
| Efforts have been made TO raise money the ere
dt Of the Gov eminent, TO repair the dykes. The
| Emperor has commuted the punishment Of death,
which General Le Shoe and others, incurred by ny
ing before the English, 10 transportation 20 Oroumst
| Disturbances Of a somewhat serious character have
broken out in several parts Of the Empire especially
Ia kweichoo and IN Fokeen.-N Y. Courier.
An EurRAoaD BINARY Casa Murderer no Muir
| deru.-We learn from the Hillsborough (Me.) Re
corder OF the 2Oth ult, that at the Superior Court
held at that place the preceding week most extra
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Is perhaps, singular in its details, any that have
yet been recorded IL is stated by gentlemen of The
bar that in extensive search through heir musty
books Of the law they could find precedent by
which any light could be thrown on the practice In
| such cases We annex the full particulars
| A litlle girl exactly twelve wears of age, and de-
scrbed really beautiful in features form and figure,
was arraigncd for the murder Of her father. There
was present at the time the deed was done,
cept small children not competent evidence, and
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her confessions and the fact of her father being
found dead in his own house, and no one there bur
herself; and II could not be proved, although exer-
ton made to do tina, any person else mad been
there the night Of the murder. 4 he father
drunken wretch and the molher known to have
a paramour, to whom suspicion attached, but he
proved clearly that he was sNme where else on the
night of the murder,
1t was proved that the father at grog shop
the evening Of The murder that he became ino1i-
Gated that the keeper of the GROCERY had put him
on a horse and send him home. On the morning AZ
ter the murder, The of the house happened TO
pass the door, and discovered the corpse laying
there The man was laying on pallet before the
fire, with one under ms head, in sleeping posi-
| ton. The head was severed with one blow with
an axe, and the severed part had rolled down. expo
sing the brains and whole interior OF the SKULL the
axe having gone through the head-through three
thickne.s SEES of the guilt and half inch into the
floor The owner of the house above mentioned inn
medlateiy summoned the neIgnDOTs ana nelu an III
| quest the body. The girl and two children be-
ing there all the time. The mother of the girl and
son 10 years old, had left home the evening before,
and staid ali night at neghbor's house.
/ The girl Immediately confessed that she had killed
him Her first confession was that her father came
home drunk, and beat her with stick, and told her
to get knife, he was going TO xiii HIMSELF but she
could not find knife. On being asked to show the
stick with which he beat her, after looking about she
picked upon that of the neghbors had
brought; and on examining her body no bruises
found, which showed that that part OF her story was
untrue She then said that he home and lay
down and told her to kill him, and on her refusing
he swore be would kill her if she did not tina, she
went and got the axe and he lay down, bu, she still
refused to kill him, and he swore he would kill her,
at the time raising himself up to get his
feet and he raised up she said she struck him the
lick but the evidence proves that the blow must
have been gwen when the head was the floor, thus
proving more untrLth on her part. The variations in
her evidence singular and excited much specula-
ton. They are the effect Of disturbed and excited
state of mind, produced either by fright, or over
anxiety possibly to The real murderer, if she
did not commit the deed herself.
She further stated that having committed the act,
the sight made her sick, and TO avoid fainting she
threw part of the quit the corpse, and
bed first, however telling her younger sister that she
had killed her daddy; and the child immediately
started up and went and lay in her dead fathers
ali night! The murderer slept
The evidence OF medical gentlemen was that q girl
of her age and size had not strength to strike such
blow. This leads many to the belief that the real
murderer is yet undiscovered.
While one scarcely realize that a child would
or could commit such deed, it 10 the other
hand that she confessed from the first momen that
she did it, and entreaties could make her alter her
statement; not even the loahsome solitude of dun
geon through night and through day; or the persua-
SONS of her counsel to disclose the truth if she had
not done it; and their solemn admontons that the
gibbet awailed her unless she recanted. Nothing
could move her.
The jury retired but few minutes and returned
verdict of "No, Guilty" The has produced much
excitement and speculation. She was released imme-
diateIy. The heartle-s mother left town and went
home alter the trial over and before she heard