Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1848-10-27

HORRIBLE ATTEMPT AT SEDUcTIoN-MUR-
DER AND SUICIDE.-A most revolving and cru
ell murder was perpetrated in the neighbor-
hood OF Marshall, in Saline county, Missouri,
on the 18th ult. The circumstances as rela-
ted to are as follows:
baker man who has been for many years
a citizen OF the county, and who has always
been regarded by his neighDors as correct
and worthy man, peaceable ard kind in his
family, conceived an incestuous passion for
his laughter Elizabeth aged about % or %
years-a most worthy and modest young WON
an-and made frequent attempts to CRAFTY his
brutal desires; which the daughter obstinate
ly resisted, until the day upon which this hor-
rlole transaction occurred. He determined to
awe her into submission, and deliberately
In the presence OF his daughter, loaded his
gun and threatened if she did not submit that
he would shoot her. About two O'Clock in
the evening, he deliberately discharged his
gun on the young lady. the whole contents Ia
KING effect on the left side in the region of the
liver; the young lady survived about eight
hours, retaining her reason and faculties of
speech long enough to relate the brutal conduct
OF the father towards her, and the horrible
wrong which he attempted to commit upon
her person. Immediately after he had infiict-
ed the fatal wound upon his innocent daught-
er, he ran across the field short distance from
the house, with his gun in his hand in some
thing like an hour afterwards the report of a
gun was heared In the direction he had gone.
and search being made for him he was found
In his field dead. The inhumane father stung
by remorse, or disappointed in his hellish
purpose, was driven by the consciousness of
his brutal guilt to shoot himself,-which he
did by placing the gun upon the fence, and
aclng the muZZle against his breast and dis
charging, 1t by means of stick prepared for
the purpose.
Baker was about Sc years old, and had
vile and some five or six children His
crime is without any extenuating circumstan-
ces; he was sober man, and in his proper
nllno' when ne medltated and perpetrated this
horrible crime.-Ler. No. Express.
PENNSYLVANIA ELEcTIoN.--On the recent
OF the election news from Pennsylvania. the
New ork papers INDUCED in various spec
ulatlons, all ofwhich GO to show how the cur
rent OF public opinion now runs.
The New York Day Book says:
AS for Lewis Cass, the idea of forcing
the unfortunate old gentleman into the horrors
OF such defeat as awaits him three weeks
from next Tuesday, if the Old HunEers per-
slst IN thus exposing him to public ridicule.
is positively cruel. Van Buren, has fully ac-
fii'AiOu iiio Pun pOSc-LndI tHerc should be
no Loco tcco party without him for its head.
and his friends In possession of the Offices"
The New York Sun says:
The result does not surprise us. We
have predicted and expected it, and have no
more doubt that General Taylor will be elect
ed by the people, than we have that the sun
Will rise to morrow morning.
The New York Globe, Van Buren, paper
says:
1.-The news yesterday threw the support
ers OF Cass into an attitude of CONSERVATION
and despair. The most favorable telerraphic
dispatches they received was There is a
hope that Longstreth is elected bv a meaUre
majority The chances for Cass are utterly
hopeless. Most earnestly do we wish we
could make the same remark In relation to
the chances of Taylor"
The New Y ork Herald, thus concludes a
long article on the recent State elections:
During the next three weeks the contest
will rage fercely, but the supporters of Gen.
Taylor have visibly the vantage ground.
and the chances are more than ever in his IA
vor. The Van Buren, party, it is likely, will
sink into oblivion, from this day forward
The friends of Gen. Cass will make prodig-
ious efforts. but we doubt not thew will be
overwhelmed in the contest of the next three
weeks, as much as Mr.. Van Buren, was in
$780,