The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-09-24
Oar Rs.as~s Cor.espsnaence.

RosDorr, ulster county, Sept. %, 1855.
Matrimonial Isedesy and Avdy-4,yaa Of TIE ssdusy
and acknowledgement Of Rondout-Prospsas-Py
jected Turnpike.
Our quiet village thrown into great excitement on
Wednesday evening, by stAbbing ARRAY Of which the
result likely to DO fatal 10 Of the parties engaged
The particulars Of the case gathered them on the
spot, are a. foliows,-
German named Meyers who follows the occupation
Of q shoemaker and resides Iacsawana street, very
respectable man withal and highly esteemed by his
negbbors had for time entertained suspicious of
the fidelity Of his wife, There circumstances which
induced him to believe that she closer terms than
she had legal right to be with whom he had re-
Gently employed journeyman in his shop The In.
dvdnai thus suspected Of usurpng his martial position
was Irishman Of the of English who had been
in the village only about month"; having Last from
New Orleans.
On Wednesday evening English left the shop at about
nine O'Clock, with PAIR of boots in his hand, Alleging
that he was going to take thcmo the owner, leaving
Meyers at work in the shop. Meyers suspecting this
was only cover to the design visiting his wife, left
the shop (which within the house where he resides
soon after proceeded softly to the entry listened
the door Of his sitting ROOM where he overheard his
false spouse and her paramonr afectonate converse
on Meyers at once opened the door, and entered upon
he guilty pair But the scoundrel who has DESTROYED
his peace was not unprepar0d Tor the and
ready for further outrage he had for the
first wrong. Without any other provocafion from the
injured husband than that Of being discovered by him. he
rushed upor him Immediately upon his drawnga
long shoe knife which he had kept about person. well
sharpened in anticipation If the OCCASION and plunged
the deadly instrument three times into his bodytwice
in the upper part of the abdomen and in the groin
The alarm given and crowd collected, among
Them several officers, who found the murderer still
naming with his VICTIM He had made no effort to
escape, and readily gave himself into the officers
hands, acknowledging that he the party hat had
done the deed. He now lies in prison, awaiting the
suit OF his murderous assault.
Meyers immedia ely removed from his own house
to comfortable quarters in the Mansion House.
by where he attended by physician who declared
the chances Of his recovery very slight The mental
dition Of the wretched whose ndeljty was the
ieading Of this hor. bie transaction IS anything
but enviable.
This village "a portion OF the town OF Kngston) the
teImni OF the Delaware and Hudson canal is under the
stimulus Of the coal business growing rapidly its popu
lation, between the censoral periods Of 1S505 has
about doubled. About twenty steamboats, fowned in
considerable part here with the place there
being regular daily steamboat commune ation With
New York. s prospects, for the future good that
some Of lis neighhos getting rather Jealous and
enaeavoring to undermine the of its prosperity
The fongbkeepsiins especially disturbed. They
have in hand the project of turnpike to from.
iloyds isnhing 10 Wawarsing, by which they hope to
overt large portion Of the canal traffic to their
Town. II IL announced in the Poughkeepsie Journals
that the stock is nearly all taken up bu: the fact is the
prise 1t will probably fail but If the road should
be eonstr neted it will take than this turnpike
divert the stream OF prosperity that flows upon
Rondout.