The Arkansas banner., 1850-09-17
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Uiea some What migates the oepFsvity, ~ al eesl ihe waa,oansss of ths late hciciae and s6i<ate ' Issys
 nsnr -fhe extraordinary excitement afising fSela thS n,staneholy murder and suicide at Troys tehf4gk the pabhe anxisus l., know all the paiteu. II sslaiion 10 t. aa do got know thai ii would ha oinx nny pegson an iHlnsliee, bat would Fseher s ts tonFss oEqntetias the excitement aaa putting egpp lofhr many irrelevant stories ecaaied. eoa- esfane this tragic aud awful occurrence 10 disetCse sAhems
 sgiIlisM A C ailwrll has been Pesscnsl aeqTaiA- tanes M sAe 9sites, for some lesa years. ih'eFFup- &4a Mmlg hF an ahsenee Of nime months al Auburn, assa ihess yeafs cruise as surereasgo. on board seerehahtmaH to Chinas Be. He arrived at New Kneks ffsm that esuise. in early sammef. Previous iahisleasing lhs Coniinens tsosae yeats psesoas.) hawaa eaaaged Co ba lheFsied 10 the lady who re. sigmsa hsEself to the hofrid death win which we aEa ali familaE. There was considerable opposition to sha maaeh, whieh delayed ihe ennsamsnalon oi tazssr aaalsee. While absent io Chinas and other nafts og the sorld, the lady, now mere. became aenmnjnted with gentleman by the name ol AnaPp' asd her frisnda impouned hes to accept his bohot- ahie neppsais i0r lnarFiage, 10 which al length she ssineiaaiiy yielded hss assent. and they wess mar rtek, aAd have had one child. which died early in hfsv. ama iuss pseyions to caldwelrs FeiuTn.
 ~cAid~ell bad sailed nearly around the world, and as ha pesred his naire shores, the most prominent ahoaNAts that sweed his bosom, was the eeTts.nty.
 
 hsss but he ssiurnsd only 10 nd the 0hjec, dsassf Co him than ife the wife of another. The iroh en- isssd his soul ha wandered about neatly distracted; hnl bic hetier came 10 hitns and he sesoised te ssake it oE. Ia he meantime le ionnd ihai sAs esissa to see h; she the wife of anotleT, Feques. teA an intesvieW. But thsiE meeting is not io be aeaesiheA. The years ot abscass that had passed eniv hsA bosad fiaem tCgeiheF strongly pos sihe ihsn hefoFe; they met as they should not have sasss-aa lovers. Csidwrii's better reason at hist lt.a aI.- f.f... -lh.. shneht. and t doahiIess would have passed by, and iefs any aespair fastened fn their hea,ts; but they losei, end inadly; ard the former associations of vs,uth came up before them freshly al ihe iAsuxhi ol a 6aal separation. She did 10, wish to ljve without him, and told him that she could not, cad that it was her determination 10 remain with hn. not withstanding she vas the wife oi anott'ef Caldwell was loo passionate aud rash to resist hai and it was talked that they should meet agsin.
 He parted with her 10 visit his friends in White hni3 ahd went on board the evening boatfor Albany AfiFr she boat was under way, and while he as w1ikiss the deck, 10 his utter a,tonishmen she ap. psased before him. The thought at once pierced lin that she had indeed abandoned her home, and sesoiyed IegardIess of the tremendous consequences. ashase his late; and her we,ds shortly cortoborsed shat Cad passed like lightning through his soal.-- They immediately proceeded 10 his state room. and thAsa they resolved in the face of all the terrible eireamsianees around them, to never part again.-- They dd not part; bat arrived al Albany, and took iosixIng at the Deleyan House. He lcit her iheTe, aua insic his niemplaied visit ,o Whitehall, and sstnF,ei In about ten days. she in ihe meantime re- eeising Her meals in her roOn, according to hs eug- gesliaA, iR osder to avoid observation.
 He setuyneh and took with her al the AmeFi. esn Hotel, where he wrote the published letter to the editor of Whitehall paper. II. remained ., iha Americsn few days, but thought Il was too pahiic place, and engaged lodgings at private house In Jay-ss. where he remained about one week; fhsn taok the Eastern cars and went in Williams. town, and was surprised aud pursued by some one. as he remarked in Troy. that he had whipped two eonslahles and escaped, the particulars ol which will soon appear. He escaped in . one-horse carnage, end arrived al the Si. Charles Hotel Tuesday morn- ing about o'clock And the sequel is now before the world. They there resolved to dis-with his own hand he opened ihe portals of eternity. They both passed 10 The undiscovered country. From whence no traveller has returned. The pages Ut romance can scarcely produc parallel. or de. scrpion lianght with such siarting and awful eir- cnnstanee represented in the truths of this case.
 From the Troy Daily Bdgeil
 The boiies of the two persons were placed in separste cofns and placed in the city vault in the public bnr ing ground yesterday afternoon.
 Mr. Caldwell of Whitehall. father of the suicide, snd v. E. Caldwell of New York, his brother, and Mr Aiming 5. WyRtni of Brooklyn, brother -in- iaw af the female, arrived here ,his morning. We hat an interview with Mr. Wygaht. who is an in'e- gent and highly respectable gentleman doing bus- sessin New York city, from whom We learned the following particulars:
 Caldwell. the deceased, had been convicted of hurgiary (not arson, as stated in another paper.) and sent 10 the Auburn State Prison, trom which, t is said he was discharged proof of his n- neesnee. For this statemrni. however, we to mol pretend to vouch. though 1t is known that he was effespeetsble connection.
 Mrs. Louisa C. Knapp, (the other victm) is the dsnghtes Of widow lady Of the name of Van Win kls, residing in Brooklyn, who has five and thses daughters. She had husband living in com fsrsabIs eireunstancesin in Murray street. New York. Mr. Ffank II. Knapp. who has becn for some time past suferiAg from an intestinal consumption, so hatfer the last six months he has beea incspacita ted for business Caldwell had become an qaaintance of the family. we understand, in May last, and had fiaally cultivated an Intimacy with his wne that was considered objectionable by Knapp. aad led 10 soins unpleasant remarks between them.
 O. ths day after President Tsylof's funeral in New Yesk (the 2llh of July) Caldwell called upou Knapp. and induced him to ride out with him from 2ts o'clock in the afternoon. While they were sus c. sought to sxplain hts conduct and relieve sf cay suspicion. When they returned invited C. iale lis house, but the latter excused hmsef by saying he had an engagement that sftsrnooa al , seleck. When Knapp entered his house he missed his wife. bat thought she had goas te her sister sr moihey's. He soon discovered . frank of her . Roas, but the servant could not tel where it had gene. He wsat to her methes's and foand she had sot seen there. He then sapposed she had gone to . sisses's in ihe country. and returning, fesnd ~sdss ts fields Of hia bed note in which she sta- sed sse had geas to her sisters.
 He supposed she had possibly gone of In . miaf cad wonld be back in day or iwo. He went to the siuisrs and feand she had not been there In- quisy st the steamboass led him to believe that Caldwell sad his wife he'd gone np the Hudson the sans aight- About week subsequently,. gea- tleaaaa from Brooklyn saw the guilty pair In AL bsay. They appeared to Do going irom the steam koals and did net sss the gentleman who was SC. qapiitisd with the woman. Sinee that time nothing waa heard ef the wseehes aati intelligence wss received of the horrible tragedy st the St Charlss
 The woman was 24 years and msn,hs old. She had been masried six years, sppesrsd to ievs her heshasd. and died childIsss. hsviag lately buried her infant, aged nearly tws ysars- Caldwell was ssms thirty years 6f age. aud had besa leading . dlsselats life.