The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-10-13

peared suddenly nom hs father house. near MIdleowr
and last going 10 the barn near which lived
laborihg man whom the lad bad frequently aeeis,d Of
Ealing his fathers grain On the dhappoaxnoe Of The
lad the alluded 10 was arrested ON suspicion Of
ing ioully disposed OF hi tut ~as Hcduitted for the
want Of proof At the time it shown that the lad he
not been alive since his visit the barn and hole
IN the Toe in the Connecticut river at point nearest
the barn. gave color 10 the suspicion that the boy had
been killed. and put through this hole About month
since the body OF lad noated ashore the mouth of
the ser and although the head was gone the parents
of young Sc confident that IL their that
they assumed and buried ii as such.
1--WE now learn that within day or two a sailor has
returned 10 Mddletown, and voluntarily before nags
rate testified that he accidentally the murder and
that the man first arrested is the guilty He says he
was going by the barn. and heard charging
another with stealing grain and hay, which denied
and reiterated and apprehending violence stepped into
the barn just the elled the lad 10 the floor with
threshing fall killing him instantly He says the man 8
wife also present and that they him
they at him and that it only by promise not
To reveal what he had that his life spared. He
soon sailed voyage from which he had just returned
and hastened back TO the OF the murder 10 unbur
den his conscience Of the suppression which he says has
made him miserable during his whole absence. Steps
Immediately taken for the arrest OF the murderer
and he has boon under examination in MiddetoBn to-
day"
Some of the papers Iecturing women extrava-
gancc in dress and advising them retrench especially
during the present financial dicnity Doubtless there
many of unwalTanable extravaganza ia this
way; but do people consider that two or three
glasses of brandy and half dozen regaas indulged in
daily by man, TO say nothing of fve and ten-doar
dinners amount in year than would be required
to dress up to the full requirements of fashion
Much of this talk about the extravaganza of is
nonsense They are almost universally careful and
many trader would to-day have been snfe and sound if
he had listened to the prudent oounses of his wife,
rather than the reckless promptngs of his ambition
1t Is natural for to cndeavor to shift the
sponsbity of their folly to other shoulders but it
rather too much TO charge commercial revnsion like
this upon ones wife and daughter
The Bradford PENNSYLVANIA Argus says ut affords
pleasure to record another instance Of success of
young citizen late of this county. NJ p Bull esq.,
of our old townsman, Colonel ID. NJ Bull who learn
ed the art preventative Of all arts in this village emf
grated West years ago studied law, was admit
ted 10 the bar of the Of Illinois after
which he located himself in Nebraska end early this
summer, while sooning in fourisng county Of south
western Iowa, rendered the nomination of district at
torney, and at the recent election elected"
The Cleveland Plaindeaer says the steamer Telegraph
brings back from Canaia every trip families negroes
who have formerly fed to the provinces from the States
They describe the life and condition of the blacks in Cana
da miserable in the extreme. 1ney principally
from Canaia West Ohio and Michigan likely to have
large acceionsto their negro population from that
The Cana ans have shown disposition in their Parlia
mcnt and in their every day transactions discourage
the negro population coming remaining in the PROV
inces
The Richmond Enquirer of yesterday morning says
1t viii be by the proclamation of the governor in
another column, that the Bank of Kanawha in this
State has ceased to redeem its notes in gold and silver
that its assets to large amount have been removed be-
yound the limits of Virginia and that the governor has
prohibited the bills notes of said bank from being re-
ceiyed in payment of any money due to the State The
president OF the bank in letter the governor states
that the bank has retired thrcc Of its entire ecua
tion In the past five weeks"
EAST TENNESSEE AND VIRGINIA RAILRoAD The cars on
this road now Keepers ten miles beyond Jones'
boro, thus reducing the staging to 81 miles Within
year this company have laid than SO miles road
and the president has strong hopes that the entire line
will be finished by the LIST of February next The board
of directors of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Com
pany with commendabe promptitude, convened at the
Of the present monetary crisis and passed
resolution instructng their agents and officers to take
payment of dues the notes of all the Virginia banks
Mrs Lucy osgood, OF Salisbury, Massachusetts, now in
her 9th year. for two years has attended the Cattle
Show in Newburyport When the stage called for her
the evening she for time declined entering it be-
it crowded saying she could walk Salisbury
which three miles This year she walked from
the north end and visited the Fair apparently
fgued than half the girls who had seen twenty sum
mers Since she ninety years old she has walked
from Salisbury and experienced inconvenience there
from.
The Boston Transcript publishes the following extract
from private letter, dated London, September 25th
Z. sorry to tell you of the death Of old Mr. Sinclair
He has been failing with govt &c, for long time and
Just lasted long enough to know and rejoice his daugh
ter success the London boards He died the I'D
His death proceeded Immediately from exhaustion and
age He was rs years old. "
There were in August last about eight hundred Ameri-
residing in Calcutta and in this number were in
cluded many and children. There a good
deal OF anxiety among all classes of the inhabitants and
the Americans thinking of sending their and
children home by the ship Daniel Webster, which in
port loading for Boston
The steamer Niagara at Boston, when off Boston light
at eight O'Clock the evening of the sth inst struck the
schooner Harriet Maria from Boston for New Orleans and
sunk her The latter had eighteen passengers on board
WIS killed by the collision. The remainder were taken
board the Niagara The schooner had assorted
go.
Mrs Snyder, residing near Mc5aheysve, Rocking
ham county Virginia. one day last week suddenly fell
down, apparently dead The necessary buria-clothes
were procured and while her friends were engaged in
dressing her in the habmcnts of the grave she politely
them to wait until she dead She is now
rapidly improving,
The Charlottesville (Va) Advocate learns that the
work the railroad from that place to Lynchburg is
he suspended in consequence of the .ahard times The
first 20 miles, which will only need $40 900 more it
believed, viii be completed before the suspension
The house of Ex-Governor Dunlap, of Brunswick
Maine burnt the evening of the Sd instant His
son. DR. Charles r. Dunlap so severely burnt that
IS thought he will not recover The family were in bed
the time of the fire. and all the contents of the house
were destroyed.
The ship sutana which arrived at New Orleans ON
reports having four bodies and piece of
wreck on the 23d ult off the of North Carolina The
bodies supposed be those of passengers by the