The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-02-10

Potomac At Little Fails broke away, ana came
down the roaring current in immense mass.'' p.s
| iug Il mountain high above tue causewAy, 80
carving three or four hundred feet OF inc Iesue
| work away of that portion of the bridge between
| the centre ms sopry and the Virginia snoIe Haso
| moved the heavy frame work on Inc piers IN rue
| channel several feet. When the IoR rose tne
| whole river above presented magnncen. spec'a
| Gle There was two distinct ridges, varying from
ave To thirty fee. high above the centre masonry OF
the bridge, and the Ice was gorged as far as the
| eye could reach.
| the pass ,rgers, about thirty In number, walked
| IN the tow path, and crossed the squeduct al
Georgetown arriving here In a sorry plight. Their
baggage wac for warded via the Little Falls Bidge
but it Is rumored here that portion of the cause
| way, connecting that structure with the Virginia
| shore Is impsssable.
The steamer Powhatau Is not yet up, and 1t is
announced that she is below gorgedin the ice. but
It is more probable that she is prevented by the
dense fog and the floating ice from making bel
usual time. Should she not arrive in time to con-
meet with the Northern cars in the morning. the
Mount Vernon or Baltimore will take her place or
the route.
learn that the steamer George Page, owned by
the Orange and Alexandra X siIroad will be ready
10 few days to make the connection between
Washington and Alexandria.
THE BURpELL MURDER The N. Y. Herald q
Sunday contains resume of the evidence given
before the Coroner on Saturday. The most imror'
t,nt development is the destruction of the will
made by DIR. Burdel in behalf of his blood rela
tves. The Herald says;
At the commencement of the session of the nqu 81
the Misses Cunningham were examined. they swear
positively that they both slept with their mother
the pisht Of the murder. One swears that she wit
messed the marriage Of her mother and DR.. Burdel
They heard noise the night of the murder, and
describe the position of aft nrs the next day in sub
ata tall anne "a vyftn ha
two of Mrs Cunnin CHAM, Of he ages of nine and
ten years resp sc.vely, were also examined Their
evidence is OF no particular moment One was SO
distressed by ths novelty of bia position that he ret
u,a r mendous bowling, ard his examination YVES
stopped. The girls rather Hppant in their re.
plies and Miss Helen evidently looked upon the af-
fair a very good joke Altos-thet, however th.ir
testimony 10 Of 70 great value. If til y know any
thing about the murder they evidently intent to
keep it to themselves DR.. Eaisdell was agsin ex
| amlned. He testif ID TIA. Bufde made will Just
before the murder, leaving all his property to his
blood relations This testimony is corroborated BIZ
of one Of the relatives witness from the birth.
psce of the Doctor which. he visited in December
Our readers a. @ aware that no will has been found
snd that several witnesses sify that Burdeil fire.
sacked by MIS- Cunningham. Mr. Mcguire, cousin of
Burdells, Identifies the revolving pistol found in
Mrs. Cunninghan's drawer as the property of Bur
dell. Mrs. 5tansbury swears that the dav of the
murder she closed agreement with eutdelI for
the lea,. of the house and after the first of May
next that the papers were to be signed on The next
day; Hn0 tndC MIS- SunElEs1 listened upon the
stairs to the conversation between tn, Doctor and
| the tenant in expectancy. Mrs Cunningham heard
also the conversation between Bur5ell and Ba sdell
the day of the murder. when tbs former Request
cd the latter to and live with him, because
feared foul play at the nsnds OF persons in the house,
All these facts 60 to show that Mrs. Cunnln CHAM
had motive to rjure BurdeI and there ia no evil
depce yet to show that any one else had motive
One of our cotempo aries }estsrdav enters into
| elaborate argument to show thai the murder might
| have been done by some person from without the
| q VI heal iur
that some person whom the Doctor had caused t. be
committed prison had threatenei his life and thst
he lock upon the ont hall door an ordinary
night latch, which might have been opened with any
key In another part of the ssme paper may be
found the ties imoDy CT Dr. Bias dell who says that
the referred to is still in prison. and that ct the
mechanic who put upon the d 'or patent burglar
proof lock thu key to which cannot be feited
new ph1se was given to the matter Yesterday,
when Mrs Cunningham, Mr.. Eckel Mr. Spodg.ess
aud the Misses Cunningham hro""h hit be fore the
c lurt of Goa mon Pleas ~Ii-s htb dsco7Dus II
was hrlu by tho counsel for the cart that they
il egally detained in custody by the Coroner
Tne C0ur., Judg BRADY sn1 lngraham. DISCHARGED
the Misses Cunningham and Mr. SnCdgtRss The
Coroner was allowed to amend his couiruttents in
the cases of Eckel ana Mrs Cunningham so far ~
10 place them in tn. position CT sccomp lices the
murder, when the Court ordered MIR. ECke into the
custody of the Warden of the city prison; Mrs Cum
bingham, BIZ me sams order returned to the
hands of the Coroner, and she imprisoned In
her own house awaiting the verdict of the jury
which will undoubtedly hand her and Mr. excl ove1
to the Grsnd Inquest for the county.
This turn of affairs not unexpected. The sea
Of the common law Ia now placed upon the lips oil
Mrs. Cunningham and Mr. Eckel. They cannot b.
required to reply to the questions of the Coroner,
snd this, presume, was all that their counse
that It's probable resut has been so far antcips
ted, will undou 5Lediy be soon brought to a close