The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-12-04


that it the work Of an incendiary, and eircum-
stances rendered the identity 81 The incsndary al
most certain. Some yeas siace .ete person now
arreste3 came to the village from the city of Buff
fac and was employed IN the establishment q Miss
f. Nichols, 1HilliBer. After continuing IN heT en-
ploy for some considerable time, she rented shop
and began business on her own account
Something more than year since, Mr. kilpaf-
rick, then a widOvver, married widow lady Of thiK
place, whereupOn Miss Duncan the person alluded
70, at once publicly alleged lagrant breach Of
promise to her, on bis part and for weeks busted
herself in seeking counsel with view obtain le-
gai redress. URPppossessing 81 nlaHner, and una
bic 70 command means, she encountered Little but
HdIcule and coHtenPc Abandoning the hope Of
legal redress she noufisheds schemes Of personal re-
venge, and publicly declared her intention Of reven
ing hersell and sought the nIeans Of doing
As her threats concerned only the personal injury
q kllpaircsl they were dsregaEded and finally
torgoiten- " hen the large fire occurred N the VII
age last winter il originated IN hoHsa belonging
% htiPatrcks and though It brought the threats Of
MSS u 70 mind, no ether circumstances appeared
e eorT95oTate suspicion Shortly alter, the hotel
Of A. haHltins was fired, but diacoRersd and extiH-
gnished. The night chosen for this act was very =
cold Wii q high west wind which, had tie FIRE not
been soon diseoyered, Would have rendered the
Pfssers1ion o. the entire west ode q Main street.
impossible ID shis case the ihesu5iafy was also
undiscovered.
Of.Iate Miss Duncan has resided IN Detroit. but
| the second burning Of properly belonging to Kills
patrick iEduced more Iigd inquiry regard to her
movements. Ii was ssceFiaihed that ~ "a beer
in this vicinity and that she lad siopped a
the house OF a lrs. Bowen NTolnaR WA fhourhs
divorced from her husband, on tie g5oun -
intemperahce and abuse, was REGARDED hq any
with much sympathy. pom converting hel
| she let fall some expressions which sefs ilt
more to point suspicion to Miss D.; accordingly an
officer dispatched to Detroit to arrest her BY
Representations q the expressions Of Mrs B.
4 Miss Duncan was betrayed int0 Confessions WHICH,
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injury Of which she complains, soon brought out
full, entire and Consistent confession Of her whole
/ course in the matter. She was the main witness
ia the examination against herself and aceompice.
According to herpwn statement. she had mediiated
| only tlfe death Of her inihrer. She now regrets
| that she did not follow her first intention. Mrs
/ Bowen, who also alleges similar iujuTy, first in
elined her to postpone this unfit she hd consumed
| his property.
To effect her purpose she bad watehed nights.
l-and walked ntdes through storms and darkness
/ She has BEEN near the Obiert Of her vengeance
when he litte suspected it,. She intended 70 IRE
] another building in the village the same night she
burned the barn, but BY the time she arrived the
light Of the fire was discovered and the alarm m
| duced her to abandon the attempt She travelled
the same night on foot to Wayne, where she took
The ears to Detroit In all her plans, Mrs bowen
has been her eoal5utor aasslstiig By her counsel
and furnishing shelter food and material for carry
| ing out her purposes. Though The examination
| was only touching the firing 81 the barn, she has
voluntarily confessed firing the building BY which
so much damage was done last winter. and also
| Hawkns's hotel. The building Qceapied BY her
| first employer was also destinedtp the flames Il
would seem that her determination fer revenge has
| run intoa kind ct Inon0lnauia. Iheaceused were
held to hail in the Of $4,000 each 10 default Of
which they were fully Committed 70 answer at the
next term Of Coprt-AdriaR llltetls Esg9sitor-
Choefase Grao4s. q The Natelez Courier
says ssosie tiple since we Published statement
Z elai ihe abseoaeal fstate rrsasureT.had been re-
cognzed IN Caiiofuia, Hasiss ia his employ near
twenty Indians, and msetiag with great success Ia
Z gold digging. gentleman well knawn in this
IS State, Just returned from, CALIFORNIA, and wh1
IS knew Graves well, says that the individual referred
J. to was not the e2-Hreasurer but an Englishnan
. named Reddihg or Reddt, once a resident Of Mis-
: sissiPpi, and that knowing the Circumstances o
d Graves defalcation he had amused himself b
S hoaxng some who thought they discovered Ike.
o ness between himself and the Treasurer
CALHonNIA.-A correspondent Of lie Ports,
, mouth Journal writes under date of SePsembel
E 27ih, Ike living in the mines; it is healthier
. there, far more 50, than in San Francisco Ons
OF tue boys writes lacoucallyt to his friend il
B New York >. California be ID Particulars il
my next" "A Nantucketer says: :. The Who'll,
countryis barren place. / suppose lumber vii
be high for some time to come, for hear that q
great many more fools are on their way here
, [ Another writes: !" am not exactly sorry that
came here, but woudn't advise any of my friends
to come. EhFes more vesselsleft New York on
the 9th, carrying in all three hundred passengers
One more specimen Of the New-England cores
pondence frem California, and we have done, A
poor fellow, who has seen the elephant, from pro
/ boscis TO tail, writes g Should William and Ste
: phen feel at allinolined this way let them
ask mother for a blanket, httie hard bread aud
poor water, and then let them seepout doors for
weekbefore they START A Pennsylvania emigrani
writes to one Of his friends, to stay home, and
thank God that you have sSmething to eat
Curious CHAReE OF BIGAMY.--The New Yors
Tribune Of the 23d ult. says g Officer Wallace, o.
Z lhe Ninth Ward. yesterday arrested man on a
( charge Of hgamY He wasbTougbt before Justice
e McGtath this morning, who after one examination
aseeriained that hevas not married to either Of thu
eOmplainanis, though he had been living seveEa
. years with one. and had,a child by her about lou
T" years ago On short conference between tue par
e ties, it was amieably settled by marriage with til
d oldest claimant and all seemed perfectly satisfies
ie with the arrangement, the rejected being a wdo'
Is lady at the time Other alleged marriage. The
% departed in most excellent good humor''
II ~ A gang of makers Of spurious coin an
is other sorts Of eounerfeits was seized in Hurol
county, Ohio, the ether day. A LOT Of weltdevise'
silver and gold coin, with all the necessary utsnsl
he for coming largely was found Three similar gang
he have been broken up in the State within tire
ne months II is estimated too, that about ons-tend
he Of the gold and one-twentieth Of the silver col
us now circulating in Ohio are spurious.
u LIBEL su1r.-ThOgnas Powell Of whom Dick
ems wrote a letter to Louis Gaylord Clark, of Ii
he Knickerb0ckeF, accusing him Powell OF being
ct forger and thief" has brougbta suit against Ii
y editor of the New York Mirror, for libel inpul
fishing it and announces that he will be prepare
y etiectually to dSprove the outrageous calunai
/ Of Mr.. Charles Dickens -
y HONORABLE SATIsFAcTIoN-One Of the be
!" challenges to the field, tofght duel that we sv
heard Of was made by a truly honorable gentlema
nc the late William Lincoln, Of Worcester, who al
an editorial controversy with a brother editor
y which became of with flying colors, rnagnaninsoo
! offered 70 h opponent honorable satisfaction in
helds the weapons to be hoes each party g dig I
Gu acre pfpoatoes, and he whose work was done bt
aad in the shortest time, 70 be declared the ici
- Should the challenge to mortal potato digging
~ accepted, he would transmit the size Of his hoe
lA- afHend who would hrF7nara an