New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-08-08

AWFUL ScENE.-A day OF two agowe saw wo
raving with the delirium remens. She was young
handsome, and a mother. An uncontrolaole passion
Tor Intoxicating drinks made he'll OF once hAPpi
home drove a kind hearted husband and father 70 des
pair and death and brought the wretehed mother so
her two Young BOYS 70 the degradation oil pubnc snse
and street beggary. Her rawlings were terrible. Sn'
lancied herself fcnd in perdition compeneu oy ~
perior power of darkness TO thrust her cblldreh mo
herce names and hold them there III thelT Douies
were burned TO a crisp Her descriptions OF wps so.
saw in her madness. and OF what she iancleo sne wa
Obliged 10 do were awful and indescrloaOie Occa'
sionaly the wretched being would ny to the larthesi
corner Of the ROOM utterng piercing screams oi agony
and pressing the palms OF her hands over her eyes IN
vain attempt 10 shut the horrd spectacle presented
TO her distorted vision Then, as fimPeed by an ire
sistibe power she would rush forward, elutchng Wild
ly at what she thought were her children ana win
loud outcres plunged them again and again 10 the iur
pace of fire. nngling horrd curses and imprecations
with the most touching and iervent prayers This ha
lucnston haunted the miserable creature long after
she was rendered poweress By the restraints OF the
strait jacket and succeeded oy others even more
terrible in character and too shocking for detail which
continued until death closed the scene. Albany Exp.
NIAGARA OUTDoSs.-AmOng the cliffs OF the
Eastern Chats about midway between Bombay snd
Cape CONFORM, rises the river Shrawati which tails
into the Arabian Sea The bed of the river IL one.
fourth Of mile in direct breadth but the edge Of the
fall IL eiptical. with 4 sweep OF half mile. This body
of water rushes FIRST for three hundred feet
slope ANGLE Of oryhy degrees In sheet Of white
bred and fifty more, into black abyss with thunder
ing noise IL has therefore, depth OF eleven hundred
and fifty feet In the rainy the river appears
be about thirty feet in depth at the fall in the dry
Is lower and IL divided into three cascades Of
RED beauty and astonishing grandeur Join our Fall Of
the Genesee 10 that Of the Niagara and then treble the
two united and have the distance Of the Shrawati
cataract While we allow to Niagara vast superiority
in bulk yet in respect distance of descent Is but
mountrn rill compared with its Indian riva.
Rochester Democrat.
FATAL ACCOMMODATIONS half past : o'clock
last evening an lrshmAn named Patrick COrbett. EN-
poyed in the Massachusetts, Iron Works al South Bos-
ton, was caught between two heavy rollers drawing
his body through space varying from four and one
half TO SIX and one half inches in width and killing him
instantly. Boston Journal. 9Th.
Factory BuRSr--On "Wednesday night last.
Whites Factory, in Midway Mass on the edge OF Bel
lngham, was destroyed by IRE. Insured al the Manu-
tseturers' Office in Boston, for $4,000.
" We are informed by F. c. Clark, Esq. OF
Windsor, Canada West, that John Arthur Roebuck,
member of the British Parliament for Bath and the
preventative OF the Canadian administration commit
ted suicide while in state Of dersngment caused BY
Tic Dooreux detroit Bulletin, I'd inst.
~ Mr.. James McF alden. an Irishman, was
robbed of 81 800 at boarding house In Pittsburgh the
other day. An Englishmsn named Slefe, a boarder
at the house. who decainped the day OF the
robbery, 10 supposed TO have carried % the dimes