The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-06-04

AN APPEAL TO PATaIoTIsa w have heretofore
stated that The Board of Managers of the Washing
ton Monument Society have ordered boxes to be
placed at the respective polls of the city at the mu
ncipal election TO be held on Monday next to re-
ceive such contributions as the citizens may think
proper to deposit in aid of the erection Of the great
monument now rising in honor of the illustrious
Washington.
MIR. G. Watterston, the Secretary of the Society,"
has made an appeal to the public, expressing 'sthe
hope that every citizen will manifest on that occa
sion the interest he feels in the noble structure now
being erected in their city as a lasting testimonial
fthe gratitude and veneraton Of the American peo
pie for the great founder of their liberty and indie
pendence. Every voter, however limited his means,
can contribute something as an evidence of his
patriotism and desire 10 do honor 10 the memory
and virtues of Washington. The adopted as well
the native citizen must feel an equal interest in
80 noble an undertaking, and cannot but be i'm
pressed with the fact that, from the locality of the
monument, it must be more deeply interesting to
the people of this city than it can be to those in
other portions of the country"
Mr.. Watteraton requests the judges Of election
in the respective wards to call the attention of the
voters to the boxes which will be placed at the
polls to receive contributions for the monument.
SUSPECTED MURDER.-It appears, from an ex-
animation before Justice Smith yesterday morn
ing, that at about eleven O'Clock on Wednesday
Mr.. Thomas w. Saffel, formerly deputy sheriff
of Montgomery county, Maryland in company
with three negro men, left the wharf of Stewart
and Safiell, between Twelfth and Fourteenth
streets, the line of the canal, for the purpose of
procuring sand from the Eastern branch of the
Potomac. AT elk o'clock of the same day the
NJ he hril l..
the boat pass, and at the same time noticed that
| Mr.. Saffel and two of the negroes were intoxi-
Gated. The vessel then ancored some distance
beyond the bridge, and on the next morning
returned, when, on being hailed by the keeper,
the negroes informed him that they had lost their
master Within short period of time persons in
the neighborhood boarded the boat and thoroughly
inspected it. They discovered bed but recently
washed, and stick, two feet in length, (Which
had been cut from the end of pole, } and upon
| these was a substance resembling blood. A part
of The deck too, was wet, as if it had iust been
washed
The branch having been dragged, the body of
Mr. Saffell was recovered, and inquest held over
ia The physician in attendance saw no marks of
violence calculated to produce death. but there was
a slight cut under the right eye. The jury were
unable to determine the means by which death
was produced, and confined themselves to a cum
mary Of the facts.
Officers Wollard and Boss, mean while, arrested
the negroes, and they were separately examined
by Justice Smith, who made them witnesses
against one another. They stated that they went
to bed at the usual hour but, before they fell
asleep, Mr.. Satfell complained of the heat below,
so he went upon deck and laid down on the trunk
Of the boat. II was not until the 1t morning
(Thursday,) they said, that they lost their cap.
tain. Their narrative, however, is slightly con
Trajectory; one Of them having remarked that the
other two were with Mr.. Saffell at the time he
made his bed on deck, while they stouty deny this
| as a fact.
Justice Smith fully committed the negroes for
appearance at court, on suspicion Of having COM
mitted murder.
CRIMINAL CoUar.- The evidence for the prose
cotton IN the case of the United States Us. Daniel
L. w God ward, IN dlcted for the murder Of his wife