Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-10-05
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DREADFUL MURDER.-Great sensation
has been caused at Athens, on receipt OF
intelligence fIom Negropont, that Mr.
Henry Leeves and his wife have both
been murdered in their house, in the vii
lage of Castaniotiza, of which village, and
a considerable extent of land, he was the
proprietor. All that is known at pres
snt is that the crime was perpetrated on
Sunday, the Oath Of August; that an
entry of the house was effected that
Mr.. Leeves attempted resistance, and
wounded one of the assassins, but was
oTerpowered, and that after the murder
"a quantity of silver plate was carried
of.
Mr.. Levees was thirty years of age,
son Of former chaplain to the British
mission at Athens, and married about
eighteen months since q Young lady
whose family reside at Manchester, who,
n few months since, gave birth to q child,
respecting the fate of which nothing is!
stated 1t appears that Mr.. Leeves held
the appointment of British consular
agent, or vice consul, in Negropont. Mr..
Wyse, British minister at Athens, in
stantly took steps towards instituting
ihe most searching inquiry. Immediate
orders were sent to the Pir@us, to the
commander of 81. NJ. war steamer Me
dina, to proceed to Negropont; and MIR.
Merlin, British vice-consul at Athens,
ind Mr.. Locock, attache, were directed
10 proceed in the Medina, to make the
most rigid investigations on the spot.
The Rev. DR.. Hill. chaplain to the British
mission, voluntarily accompanied the ex.
expedition, as he had been intimately
acquainted with the deceased, and thought
he might be of use in protecting the in
FAINT, should it have escaped the fate of
It's parents.
GUNS CARRYING MORE THAN FOUR
hlILEs.-A letter dated Revel, Aug. Is,
rays: Tho Vulture paddle-wheel steam
or, sent with dispatches for Sir Charles
!sapier, took out heavy piece of ordnance
weighing Is cwt., on new principle. 1t
IS capable of throwing shot 900 yards
extreme range, and of efecting breach
TT 5000 yard. This kind of arm, if dis
iributed among the feet, would soon
destroy Cronstadt.
The officers Of the Russian prisoners
have been allowed rs. a day "subsis-
tence money" and IS. . day for each of
their wives who have come with them.
They are on parole of three miles round
Sheerness, and permission is granted for
each officer to have his servant on shore
with him. The risoners consist Of two
classes, Russians and Russian Firms
and it is said they have deadly hatred
The one for the other, and will not mess
together; at any rate they do not. The
Firms are, generally speaking, nne, mus
cular-loOking men many Of tho Russians
IRE also well-mads men, and evidently
soldiers of some standing, well behaved,
disciplined, and we'll set up.
The 9Th Dragon guards have suffered
so much-their commanding officer
Major lie Marchant) absent from i'll
health; the senior captain (Duckworth, }
the surgeon Pitcairn, and the veterinary
surgeon Fisher, dead, ss well q num-
Der of non-commiSsioned officers and
privates-that it has been disregimented
Cor a time, and has been placed under
the command Of Colonel Hodge, who in
corporates it with his own regiment, the
9TH royal Irish dragons. 1t may readily
be imagined that the hrigadier general of
The heavy cavalry feels deeply the losses
Of the regiment he has commanded SO
long.-pienna letter.
During the action at Bomarsund there
was one Frenchman who did good SER
vice. He srept on his face and hands
Under the fort, his only protection being
a large stone. He was there for sixteen
Eours. and fired no less than two hun
dlred rounds Of ammunition, and killed
about one hundred and fifty Russians.
According as fellow would put out his
Lead, pop went the Prenchman's gun.
The French are dead shots at six hundred
yards.-Letter from the Ajar.
LAGER BEER IN NEW YoRK.-The Tri.