The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1847-09-02

ed "Ihe ,orong man hung" which you re-
Gently copied from an Albany paper. 1t
states that Boyington was hung, in Alabama,
upon charge Of killing man, upon the
ground that he was the last person seen
with the man who was murdered, and that
recently the landlord, in whose house the
murder was committed, confessed the crime
on his death bed Now the murder was
not committed in any dwelling, but in field
sparcely covered with trees and blackberry
vines, in the outskirts of Mobile The man
murdered was very much out Of health. He
boarded in the same house with Boyington,
and by him was invited out to gather berries.
They were seen together, going in that di-
rection. The man was known to have 80
or 80 dollars on his person. That evening
Boyington returned to town, and fret en-
gagged a horse at livery stable to ride out
of town. He went short distance and re-
turned, and then, after purchasing some per-
sonal weapons, took passage on steamboat
up the Alabama river. The body Of the
murdered man was found in some bushes
where the murder was committed. His
money was gone. Boyington was suspected,
pursued, arrested, brought back to Mobile,
tried, convicted and finally executed. 1t
was in 1884 or 1885 He protested that
he was innocent to the last, and excited
very great sympathy in his behalf After
his conviction and while in prison, he wrote
very able review Of his trial, in which he
handled the argument of the learned counsel
against him with great severity and
number of pieces of fugitive poetry which
he had written, were published in a pamph-
let. The crowd to see him executed was
very great and highly excited, and just be-
fore the time arrived for him to be swung
off, he leaped from the scaffold and ran
but was overtaken, and executed. The cir
cumstantial evidence of his guilt was very
strong. presume no other man confessed
to the murder.
grand mistake has recently been made,
and rec,ifed, in regard to the Baltimore and
Washington Battalion Of Volunteers, which
some time since returned from Mexico.
They were paid of, entirely, as was sup
posed But it was afterwards ascertained
that they had been paid for only 1900 miles
travel, when they were entitled to pay for
5000 miles, and could recover it A captain
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said, having learned that an amount Of back
pay could be recovered, went round to other
captains with blank power or attorney,
or obligation, and offered them $50 each
for whatever might be coming to them if
they would sign the paper. To the lieuten-
ants, it is said, about $l5 were offered to
the non-commissioned offers, $4, and to the
privates SO. Many, without examining into
the matter, signed the papers, when 10 it
appeared that there would be coming to each
captain $2l2; to each lieutenant Sis; to
each on-commissioned officer Sp75, and TO
each private 500! Squire Slettinius, a
magistrate who has been the active and
faithful agent of the volunteers in the matter
of obtaining their pay for them, ascertained
what was going OH and entered a protest at
the proper department against the proceed
ing, W hich had the effect to cause all the mo-
ney obtained by the papers signed aforesaid,
to be refunded: so that each volunteer will
now get his just pay. /. is proper to say
that the captain alluded to states, that he
was not at all aware of the amount of back
pay which was due to each volunteer, He
has been appointed 10 an office in the War
Department. POTOMAC,