The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-07-02

TRAGEDY IN NoRrH CaRoLIsA-Four PRISON
ktfted by a !Aaniac.-On Tuesday last about day
light, man named James Rouse, living near
WhiteVtlte, Columbus CO., N. G., killed his tatner
wife and two children by cutting their heads of,
"ith an axe All on the premises were slaiD ex
c'pt his eldest son,who escaped. The Wilmington
journal says: N
Ills eldest 500 ran over to the residence of Isaac
H. Powell, and told Mr.. p. what had happened
who got W. G. Smith, and they went on toward.
Rouses On their way they met Rouse in puraris
OF his son with axe. lie said he eanted to Kin
him. On meeting Messrs. Powell and Smith h.,
dropped the axe and held out his hand, when
they arrested him. He is iu Jail The little b,y
who escaped, stated that Rouse kfcd the old mai,
cut IN the yard with stick, and then chopped tff
his head lie t0ok the old mans knife, aud wiIh
that he killed his own wife. and cut off her head
The children he Killed with the axe aud chopped
of their heads At WhitevilIe. when being carrie,
u jail, Rouse sad he killed his wifi, because she
bsd tried to cut his throat two years sgo and hi.
iathoI because be had whipped him very severely
when 10y. lie had been In the insane asy nrn 70,
eighteen Lonths preceding the affair, with the ex-
ception NJ the last three or four weeks.
THE CAUSE The ''ineompatibiity" which has
caused the sepai alton between Charles Dickens and
his wife is thus accounted for by letter in the
Boston Bee:
II was yester lay conversing with gentleman
well Ac4uhlDteu WIN tI6 DlCAend hmlty, ana lie
attributed the difference between tho novelist and
wife to diverse views they take in regard to The
religious education OF their daughters Mr.. Dick.
ems is decided fatit,idinsria1 in his views, and
generally attends II Q Unitarian Church, while
Mrs. Dickens, IdiR purg lady, brought mp in the
stricter doctrines pf Presbyterianism, still clings
to the religious ideas pcnlcated In her youth, aud
naturally wishes hei daughters brought up 10
the rame way. fhe lact OF the daughters sid
ing with the fatbor e sieIy shows that like most
young people the Sspyroye OF those doctrines that
offer more freedom IA generally more attrac
tive In appearance q. least. ~
SeuAv SLAVES IN u AH.-Tbc New York Tribune
says un intele eut writer in the train of the Utah
Peace Commjssioi Hirs states that the system Of
buying aud ssilip Indian women 10 carried on all
along the route asf0ss the plains, among the ira
ders aud ffcntisfsmen. as . regular established
practice. A.ra9r every white man along thisroute
has an Irdisg sqnaw. purchased, in Tho case af
young and be- gfiiul women. NJ as high price ~
three or fsEe horses, Though old and ngiy ones
may be ned ~ q much less cost. Once sold to the
whise ear. her Indian relatives reuounce all tnr
fIer IT terfSs in her, and not merely her person,
t,at NJ va is at the dis posai OF her owner Wien
d a f piap gets tired Of his wife, be ships her of
end Fl I'LL aaother The children of these naiens
srgs Es'is negfectea isy the fsshers, ard grow no
VI liNy nnpy under tho care II she mothers. A.
n Idhe torts along the route, the youHg officers,
ssttisss, sud ell who can afford IT, buy the sqnAwi