The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-03-25

STARTLING DIsCOvERY-SECRET SOCIETY
During the late trial Of Archibald Seaman and Wal
county Common Pleas, the existence of q secret So
ciety was disclosed, the designs and tendency Of
which one or two extracts from its preamble and
constitution will sufficiently explain. In the first
pledge Of his goods and chattels, lands and tene-
ments, and his life and body" The preamble re-
cites that Whereas all governments are instituted
and controlled for the sole purpose to aid the learned
against the unearned the strong against the weak"
&C.. &C. Pledge the second contains the following
clause:-"I pledge further, that will disregard all
State or national law that has q tendency or will
even permit the designing knave to rob the honest
or unsuspecting and my influence shall be against
the wealth Of the arst0crat 80 it shall be in favor of
the laboring poor" A pamphlet copy Of the consti
tuition Of this daboica confederation was taken from
the pocket of one Of the defendants, after he had
broken Jail and been re-captured. The following
certificate was also found in Barness pocket
PROTECT THY DRoTHR-so0ErY FRIENDS
duly authorized to institute Grand Division No accord
ing to the constitution and rules Of the order And the
vision and is to preside over said division until his sue
cessor is chosen and qualified. Given under my hand
and the seal Of the ORDER this 18th Of October 1852
G. sSLRM, Seal 4
It will be perceived that the names are in CIPHER.
the key Of which was discovered during the trial 1t
consists of adopting the letter in the alphabet mme-
diately succeeding the real one used in spelling.
This communion Of plunderers, the germ Of which
was brought to light In Loran county, was to have
branches in every State of the Union. 1t is said that
a gentleman who has been representative in the
Ohio Legislature at the head Of the band in this
state.-Sandushy (Ohto) Register, March IL.
SUICIDE-DEPLoRABLE TRAGEDY.-On Friday
night ,ast at about one O'clock the inmates of the
st. Charles Hotel in this city, were startled by the
heartrending screams Of q female, whose husband
had fallen from the window Of the third story, and
was corpse beneath it. 1t seems that this unf0rtu-
nate man-Mr Edward Snyder, of Dubuque-being
greatly depressed account of business reverses,
had become partially deranged, and deliberately pur
posed to commit suicide. On the day preceding his
melancholy death he had procured q razor for the
tween the beds. On Friday he obtained another,
and at about one O'Clock, while his wife was sleep
ing slipped to the window, opened It, leaned far out,
so to be to all, and then plunged the razor
into his throat through all the arteries nearly to the
spinal bone, and fell upon shed below, and thence
to the ground, covering himself and everything
around him in pool Of gore. The frantic cries of
his wife, who, awakened by the falling of the win.
dow vas soon by his side, with bare feet, and in her
night clothes, gathered together number Of per-
sons, who bore the corpse into the hotel where the
coroners inquest was held early in the morning.
Their verdict was that he came to his death by cut
ting his throat with razor, owing to mental de-
rangement. Mr.. Snyder was Of the firm of Snyder &
Turner, Of Gaona, residing lately at Dubuque, en-
gagged in the lead trade, and his way to st. Louis
He has been man of considerable property, and re-
turned, two years since, from California, where a
great portion Of his means were swept away in the
food Of 1861. He had been married about three
weeks to lovely and intelligent wife, the feelings Of
whose lacerated spirit not to be described by lam
guage, or aeviated by human sympathy.-keokuE
(Tor1) Dispatch, March 8.