The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-12-06

The letter Of our Boston correspondent,
in another column, furnishes compend
of the material reliable facts that have come
to light since the date of his last letter, in
the case of DR.. WEBSTER, now under ar
rest for the supposed murder of DIR. PARK
MAN. The following paragraphs from the
Boston papers contain some personal state
ments of interest:
From the 4Has.
We have long known WELL and once intimately,
both parties connected with this sad affair; mean
the gentleman who, there seems too much reason
10 fear, has met with an untimely end by murder
means, and him whom suspicion involves
implicated in that awful event. For DIR. George
Parkman, if indeed he has been thus taken from
US, we lament for kind hearted, generous
though often eccentric in the ministration OF his
generosity and good man, taken from in
the dist of his usefulness, by the saddest agency
that extinguish the mortal life of mantle
hand of his fellow man.
Our recoections of Professor Webster, through
the seven years brought into connexon
with him, have left upon strong impression of
natural amiabity, integrity and moral character,
of 50 fearful crime, without strong evidence of his
guilt.
From the Post.
1t is said that Drs. Parkman and Webster were
classmates in college, For quarter of a century
more DIR. Webster has occupied distinguished
position in the scientific world professor Of chem
isiry and mineraogy in Harvard University, of
which the Medical College in Boston is branch.
DR.. Parkman was once associate editor of the
Medical Journal, published by Wells & Lilly. At
the same time DR.. Webster was associate editor of
general scientific journal whose title has escaped
US, published by billiard, Gray & Co.
DR.. Parkman was very wealthy, and had been
for many years largely engaged in real estate
transac tons, and in loaning money mortgages.
DIR. Webster has been more successful in acquiring
fame a scientific man than in making money,
and in debt to DIR. Parkman. Out of this rela-
ton sprang disputes between them.
Some of Dr. Parkman's friends, assuming that
DR.. Webster killed DIR. p, suppose that an angry
alteration occurred at the interview on Friday,
and that DR.. Parkman, who occasionally used very
blunt language, said something which 80 exasper-
ated DR.. Webster, that the latter suddenly dealt him
a mortal blow with some implement at hand and
them to conceal the rash and fatal deed resorted to
the for disposing of the body which have been
described above.
From the Courier.
DR.. Webster has BEEN for upwards of twenty
years, professor of chemistry at Cambridge. He
has a wide circle of acquaintance, and has main
tanned throughout life unblemished reputation.
He has paid strict attention to the duties of his
profession, and his conduct has been marked by
uniform sobriety and steadiness, His disposition
was frank and open, his manners lively and social;
he esteemed by all who knew him as good
citizen, peaceable neighbor, and kind and af-
fectionate husband and father In every moral and
intellectual characteristic he might be regarded
one who placed beyond the suspicion of ten
| dency to commission of crime. 1t is hardly ne
cessary to say, that the shock of this sudden and
most unexpected disclosure has fallen with terrible
weight upon his family and friends. Dr. Webster's
friends are strong in their belief of his innocence.
The suppostion that person could pass through
| life of more than fifty years unsullicd by crime,
| and plunge in single instant into the commission
of frightfu atrocity like the supposed murder Of
! Dr. Parkman, is one which the mind stubbornly
| rejects. Such Il moral and mental metamorphosis
would be, certainly one of the most extraordinary
phenomena yet exhibited by the history of the hui
man mind.