American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper., 1846-08-19

that they will either enlighten the House or
benefit the country. Speeches are 100 often
made "for Buncomb," and the readers of the
Washington papers are bored until they are
sick, with the many columns occupied with
j what MIR. So-and-so said. A short abstract of
what has been done and said would be sufficient
for most readers; and those who desire more
could consult the Resister of Debates which is
! published annually.
We are glad to see it announced in the Ma
toual IntelIigencer, that the practice of report
ing speeches at large for the Washington pa
pers, is likely to be discontinued, in consequence
of the enormous expense to which it subjects
the proprietors. In an article in relation TO the
impossibility Of publishing all the speeches in
the National lntelligencer, the editors say:
"Whst upon this subject, let us say that the
time is at hand, if it have net already arrived,
when the reporting and publishing in the Wash
ington newspapers, at the expense of their pro-
pretors, of all (or any considerable portoH) Of
the elaborate speeches delivered in Congress
must cease. The custom has already existed
too long. For the last five and twenty years,
the burden has been becoming every year heaV-
ier and heavier to the press, by reason Of the
yearly expanding volume of the Debates, and
the growing desire and expectation ol Members
of both Houses to be reported at large. 1t has
now become too heavy to be borne by the pub
| fishers, unless in some form of which the ex-
pense shall be paid by Others than the Printers,
whose subscribers would for the most part great
ly prefer that the contents of their Washington
papers should be OF more miscellaneous cast
than they usually are during the sessions Of
Congress. AT this very session, the Propretors
of one of the city papers have declared that the
expense oftheir reporting department during
the Session amounted to nne or ten thousand
dollars; and we are satisfied, from our own ex-
perience, that their statement is rather under
than over the mark. 1t is plain, to every one
who will think, that no newspaper published at
Washington can stand this annual charge, to
which ought to be added full fifty per cent for
all the expense with which the printing of such
mass Of matter loads down the newspaper
press"
There are few readers of the Washington pa
pers, we presume, who would desire the pro-
prietors to incur so heavy an expense as that
mentioned above, for the mere qualification of
occasionally reading speech delivered by
favorite orator.
| BLOODY DEEDS IN MISSISSIPPI A man NAM
ed Parker, lately killed young man named
Clay in Tishemingo county, Miss. The Vicks-
burg Sentinel OF the 7th inst, gives the follow
ing particulars: Parker's wife had left him, for
his abuse of her, and had gone to her fathers,
! who is named Clay, the father also ofthe young
/ bo pa rlarf foil hor
and was denied admission to The house. He
came back again at 9 O'Clock at night; the old
man being from home, the mother of his wife
again denied him admission, when he sprung
into the door and severely stabbed the old lady
with knife. Her two sons ran to her assist
i ance, when the frantic man stabbed one ofthem
dead on the spot, and very severely cut the 9TH
er. The old lady's life is thought to be in great
danger. Parker has been arrested and is now
in Jail.
MURDER AT RICHMOND. An inquest was
held at Richmond, Va, on Monday, over the
body of Martin Crofeld, who was found the
Saturday night previous, stabbed in the left
breast, at the door of the house of Nicholas
Ryan, near the bridge over the Dock Canal
The Wing says: "The wound which was
mortal, and of which the deceased died almost
; instantly, was inflicted with dirk OF dirk
knife. A great mass of testimony was taken
in the case, to which the jury listened with
patience and diligence, and which resulted in
finding jeremiah Kinney, Edward Patterson,
, and Robert Ii. Kuhn, guilty of the murder of
the said Martin Cro6eld, and one Amanda Lo-
den as accessory before the fact, who were all
committed to Jail under the Coroner's warrant
FINANcIERING. MIR. John W. Martin, of
Martinsburg, late President of the Lewis Coun-
ty Bank, N. Y. was arrested in New York
on warrant issued from that place, charged
with lraudulently obtaining a note for $4,000
) from Norman Goody. Mr.. G. charges that
} he loaned MIR. Nj. one note of 80, 900, which
he said he had destroyed, having no immediate
use for it, and upon the strength of that state
, ment, he gave him another note. Learning
soon after that the fist note was still in cxis-
tence, he preferred this charge, upon which Mr.
| NJ was arrested, and will go back to Martins
burg in custody of the officer Mr.. M. has al
ways maintained an ire proachable character,
having filled many important and responsible
stations.
SOMETHING MYsTERIoUs. There is rumor
in town, says the New York News, that Alex
ander Wilson, whom we mentioned day or
: two since as having fred upon his sister, Caro-
line E. Wilson, at the City Hotel, is now lying
in neighboring town upon sick bed, suffer
ing from the effects of sundry wounds infiict-
ed hu q dirE or hn,rie knife dnrinn the ennnnntn Or