Washington telegraph., 1851-04-30

with her husband, intended taking pas
sage for San Francisco, in an American
vessel, then loading for that port.
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TRAGEDY IN GREEN COUNTY,
MISSISSIPPI.
E<openaent Of a Florida Lady q0ith a
M1ssasslppaan.-Aryest Of Herself and
Pasamour.--Murder Of the Rescue,',
| 3-c-In the Paulding (Miss.) Clarion of
the 9Th inst, we find, UNDER the above
heading. the following account of a
dreadful tragedy recently enacted in Green
county, Miss;
| We regret that we have not the full
particulars Of the transaction we are
about to relate, and in which desperate
villain, through the foolish temerity Of
his captor-a temerity that cost his lille
has eluded the pursuit of justice.
A citizen of Hancock County, in this
State, (whose name we have not learned)
residing temporarily, we presume, in
Florida, became acquainted with the
| wife of a Planter. The intimacy ripen-
ed into guilty reciprocal passion. The
disgraced aud faithless wife consented TO
an elopement. Not content with the
nefacable wrong already inflicted upon
her husband, by her llason with a dis
reputable stranger. she connived with
that stranger 50 rob him of his property.
Their plans were successfully carried
out. With valuable negro boy,
handsome travelling carriage. a span of
valuable horses and costly double bar
rel gun. they fed the dwelling, whose
proprietor they had 'wronged beyond
atonement, and whose precincts their
presence had polluted.
When the husband ascertaned fully
that his trusted wife had become the
abandoned concubine of another, and
that she had not only deserted him for
the unhallowed embraces Of her lover,
but had also robbed him, he made ener-
getic preparation for their pursuit and
capture. The blow was too severe, the
shock too crushing, for him to undertake
the pursuit in person. He was utterly
unnamed. That which he had believed
perfect and beautiful, by a sudden, an
appalling moral transmutaton, had be-
come loathsome and deformed; the peer
! less flower was an offensive poison weed.
To friend named Smith, was delegated
the task of following and capturing the
fugitives, and he undertook it with alac-
rity Mr.. Smith traced them to Green
county, where he learned that the robber
and seducer was making rapidly for the
residence of his mother, in Hancock
He secured the willing assistance Of
Messrs Edward Davis ard Philip
James; and the three, armed with guns,
made a descent upon the rufian, at his
mothers residence, an hour before day,
on Thursday, the 22d ulr They had
no sooner open the door of the room in
which he lay than he leaped from the
bed, like a tiger startled in his lair, and
commenced fighting desperately. He is
a man OF Herculean strength; and so
abrupt was his onset, that he nearly
effected all escape; but his captors rallied,
and with united effort hurled him back
into the room He then rushed upon
MIR. Davis, and, in attempting to possess
himself of that gentleman gun, wrench
ed the barrel from the stock. Mr.. James
then quickly advanced, and with one
we'll aimed blow of his frelock feled the
villain TO the floor lie was at once Sc
cured, and the property recovered. lie
denied having taken the money. His
partner in guilt declined returning. and Mr..
Smith did not attempt to force her. The
| party returned to Green with their prison.
! er. There Smith acted with strange
| fatuity that cost his life. Messrs. Davis
and James volunteered to return with him.
but he declined their services. The prs-
oner placed in carriage, ironed only on
the legs, and Mr.. Smith placed himself
beside him. The negro followed on
horseback, and was incautiously permit
ted TO retain one of those dangerous knives
denominated "Arkansas tooth picks -
They travelled but two miles, when the
negro must have assailed Smith, in con-
cert with the prisoner; for Smith was
found murdered, at that distance OH the
road, gashed and mutilated with knife
cuts, in most shocking manner. The
carriage and least valuable horse was
left by the murderers, but they robbed
the victim of his money and other porta-
BILE valuahles.
We trust that prompt and spirited
effort has been made by the cltizens OF
Green to re-take the secucer, thief and
murderer; so that a monster black with
triple crime and his sable accessory
may not go ''unwhipt of Justice
. We learn from Mr.. Knox. Of this
place, that the name of the murder is
Hardy. 1t was the opinion of DR.. Ad.
ans that Mr. Smith was killed with q
knife, while sitting IN the carriage; by
some one riding behind him. This opin
ion clearly duplicates the slave found in
Hardys possession.
James S. Calhoun was inaugurateC
Governor of New Mexico, at Santa Fe
on the Sd of March. The New Mexican