The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-08-09

card in which he that II he is the person nomi-
the Union Convention held in that city Monday he
respectfully declines the honor, and being compromise
democrat, will support General Pierce.
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY We have been furnished,
by gentleman from the of the horrible tragedy
with the particulars OF the murder which place ut
Trux'on Cortland County, on Tues0ay. Some Of the
circumstances look to US Improbable but informant
they true to the letter The murderer
lrishman Patrick Donoghue by name The victims
were the wife and child Of Daniel Kinney who resides
the sash factory just south Of the village of Trux-
ton. A daughter Of Donoghues had been missing for
several days and he pretended to believe that Mrs Kim
had stolen the child On Tuesday afternoon Mrs X
and her daughter passed Donoghue the street near
his residence and remarked to him that she did
lieve he would ever his girl again. Upon this, d.
went into his house, and immediately came out with
had rifle. He followed after Mrs. X, and coming
up with her, struck her blow with the butt of his
the ground. and as she fell, he struck her another
blow which broke her neck. Mrs KS daugh-
natched The rifle from his wife aud shot the girl dead
D. then reloaded his rife and went to the sash factory
saying that there were two men there whom he would
shoot He finally went to tavern in the village, and
there repeated that there persons in the sash
factory whom he would kill He laughed at and told
that he dared not do It, He told the present
60 down the road and they would what he dared do
man then arrived from the Of murder and after
O brief struggle, D. was secured and conveyed to the
Cortland county jail Upon the discovery of the murder
Of Mrs Kinney and daughter suspicion aroused that
Donoghue wasao the murderer ofhs daughter Some
his boy and questioned him gardng the whereabouts
Of his sister He said he dared not tell what he knew
for fear his father would kill him. They told him that
his father III prison and could not inure him upon
which the boy led them to hill and pointed out large
They raised the stone, and found the girl She was
not dead but had been confined under the stone with
scarcely room to move muscle nearly two whole days
and nights. She could scarcely stand upon her feet.
when delivered from her place Of confinement, and
stated that she had been thus punished
remark he made that dspleaed her father Donoghue
after he lodged in JAIL affected great
at the loss Of his daughter and charged her abduction
into his presence the unnatural father gave wav to
savage passion and demanded that his hands be united
that he might Kill her. Our informant states that
Dsnoebue wac man Of considerable education but of
terrible passions, and tyrant TO his family He also
says that all who acquainted with him consider him
perfectly though it is scarcely be credited that
man in his mind could be capable of perpetrating
such dabolical deeds Syracuse Journal, 9Th inst
EXTENSIVE CONFEDERATION AT SAvANNAH.-We
regret 10 be called upon record another csiructiyere
which visited city yesterday beginning at o'clock p
M The fire originated In Yamacraw ut the corner of
Laurel and Zubiy streets Passing with the wind from
northeast 10 southwest 10 extended from north to south
from Zuhy to Margaret street and east and west from
Laurel to ST. Cali street Hence the whole embraced
by the contagration. the houses which we're totally
destroyed consisted Of three entire blocks and large
portion Of another block The numbey houses burned
amount 10 rome fifty sixty containing about ninety
families who were thus rendered houeless In few hours
With the exception Of three four houses those destroy
ed were Of inferior class End generally inhabited by
families in INDECENT circumstances The loss IL COMPARE
lively sEe as the furniture nearly all saved The
suffering ct the poor reope however who thus unfor
tunate must be kerous and venture to pre- that
ht city auihoriiies will make provision for them
The following 30 lnr have been able ascertain
arc The names Of the parties owning the houses burnt
W w. johnson, Est James Robbers Jacob Friend Jack
Williams, Henry Tholnasson Solomon Zegler Mrs Nor
ningtar Charles II Picket John Hover Patrick Price
Est. s. Winkler, - Cooke, L. L. Wolfe, Mr. John |
Mureh on, and Thomas j. NayloY
There was bus little insurance the propcrty-about
81 500 on ALL bit bow distributed NOT informed
Among the insured ara W W. johnson, partly; Henry |
Ihomasson. l. j. Wolfe. Thomas j, Naylor John |
Hover. Mr. Nurchisou also ins ured to some extent
There was but estern in that part of the city where
the fire occurred Hence il necessary to form very
long lines extending wet far the canal for
curing supply of water. But for this circumstance
there Is doubt that the fremen would have controlled
the ire before II had made great progress Here
have one more argument in favor of works The
fire extensively spread before il possible with
the utmost diligence TO throw drop of water upon i'll
Sdtdsnda Republican, .qpsudi
THE MASSACRE or CAPT MARCY AND MEs Cox.
rRMLp The report of the OF Captain Marcy,
Of the United States army and his men, by the Ca.
manche Indians. is repeated with confidence We
letter from officer stationed ut Fort Wachita
Cherokee Nation Of July l1th, which fully confirms the
whole command by the Camanches Capt. Marcy out
on an exploring expedition up Red river The party
fought the Indians two days. and all killed The
command consisted OF Capt. Marcy Of 5th Infantry;
Capt McClellen OF the Engineers; 90 men, officers
citizens. and 20 teamsters."
Row ON THR DELAw ARE-We learn from the
Trenton True 7ae that party Of stone ha ckers who
bad become dissatisfied at the Water Power Company
building log dam at Scudders Falls. the Delaware,
repaired thher for the purpose Of demolishing il
number OF men from the rolling mill collected together
for the purpose Of protecting the dam and when the
parties met considerable Of fight ensued but with the
exception Of few cut beads from stones and brckbats
serious injury wa sustained either side. The stone
hackers repulsed. but the