Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-02-15
LUoeErIA BonoIAlsx = RgAl LlgE--We give


to-day some more minute details of the exeeu-
ton Of Henry Fife and Charlotte Jones, at Pitts
burgh, on Friday last, than our reporter was
able to gather The death of these two crimi-
mails winds up the concluding chapter Of one Of
the most intense horrors ever occurring any
where near this vicinity. An unusual degrees
of interest has attached to these criminals and
their crime, from the nature of their auteee-
dents, and from the strange liaiSon which, mp
to, and at the time Of the murder, existed be-
tween them. Many persons have supposed that
it is impossible that deep.seated, feryent nom
sensual love should exist between two such per-
sons as Charlotte Jones and Henry Fife
Where the heart is dead to moral obligation, It
is generally supposed the spark of q pure abb
ding love has gone out Hence the thrilling
drama Of Lucretia Borgia-who lived and died
for Genarro-eombining as it did all that was
horrible-aII that was tigress-like-all that was
sIeepless, strange and terrible in a woman's ma
ture-With all that was heroic, captivating, en-
during and devotional in woman's love, has
never been regarded other than as dramatic
nightmare In the case of Charlotte Jones, We
have a something entitled to make great deal
more than semi-similitude, ifnot a duplicate
of Lucretia Borgia- Henry Fife, in her eyes,
accustomed as she had been to the low associ-
ates of her family and casual acquaintanceship,
was hero-a man to love, There was that in
his strange abandon of mind, which invested
him with romance, which, whether in high or
low degree of life, always wins womanis love.
His last words and. his last act showed that he
was the man she had hncied him at. the time
she first saw him at her sisters in the town of
Hickory. He was calm, reckless and mysteri-
Gus, yet towards her tender in his demeanor-
dying not like felon, but more ike Mon
mouth or a Stafford, and despite his terribleness
and horribleness of character-drawing to him
the hearts of spectators
1t is sorrowful to Think that so much that
would have been lnstrous and admirable in
these two criminals, had it been rightly chan
nelled, is male SO dark and repulsive by its en-
tanglement with baseness. Did the speculatiOns
of Pythagoras prevail among US, we. might well
afford to aseribe the, blood of the Borgias to
Charlotte Jones, and lie insatiate and nnscule7
puidus nature OF Gabetta, = to Henry Eife.
THB lyAsHs6Tos e5BEIY CoacEgsslIA
The frstf. thing he member of Congress from
Washington. Co.. Pa, Hon. Blu Montgomery,
knows, he will be-a greatlman. Between maxi
ing speeches, taking hand insanI. Occasional
fight, and getting appointed on COMMITTEES to
draw up addresses, he bids likely to be as well,
and somewhat more favorably known in Wash
ington d. O. than he was IN Washington, Pa.
We're really anprehensiys that Bausman's
blood aud thunder narrative of "Peter Pluck
EN-" has made a great man out of Bill. Bills
on the right tack, and the course before him is
plain sailing. Anti .Lecompton and Anti-filii-
buster are good items with which to enter the
field for a.re-election.
JOSIAH PaEscoTr-an ex-resident of this city,
sends ns.the first number of a paper he has got