Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-10-23
THE NEWS.

Church In Thlrty-i0urth-stree new ORR, on
Sunday night, while the latter was conducting
services. Berriers shot at him with a heavily
loaded pistol, tile ball from which past by his
head and lodged in the rear of the pulpit ST
The would-be assassin was Immediately secnr-
ed and handed over to the Police
William Sander, who murdered Peter Shork
at Hamptonbnrg. N. Y in August last. ~ a
fit of jealousy, has been sentenced to be hung
at Goshen on Friday, Dec 3.
The grain movements OH the Lakes since
the LIST of October has been very heavy. AT
the port of Oswego alone the imports and ex-
ports have been as follows :-Fleur, 57,945
barrels; Wheat 1,lS5, S64 bushels; Corn,
36l. 491 bushels; Oats, 39,504 bushels.
The report that Gen. Jerez had been dis
missed as Minister from Nicaragua, proves to
be untrue. He still contipnsS to be recog-
nized by our Government. &Aull discussion
of the question at issue has been had with
Secretary Cass, and Jerez, being satisfied that
his present authority would not permit him to
yield one or two points insisted upon by Sec
retary Cass, has asked a postponetnent of
their consideration until he can receive dis
patches from Nicaragua, which he expects
will be before the assembling of Congress.
We have news Of a desperate battle in west
ern Texas, between a body of q. S. troops
and the Camanche Indians, in which the
whites lost five killed, one missing and ten
wounded, and the Indians forty killed and a
large number wounded.
Another battle has taken place between the
United States troops and the Indians in New
Mexico.
Vi Do4r.s~~ aoosroAtc fr0po Ero1 ~ % do
not paint a very delightful picture of life at
" the diggings' They say that if you go to
the river in the summer you will find it too
high for work, and if you go in the winter yeu
find it frozen up. If you go where the gold
is you find blood-thirsty Indians; and if you so
where the Indians are peaeeable you find no
gold. If you take clothes and victuals with
you it costs more than they are worth to carry
them; and if you do not take them with you
you may expect to freeze and starve, Prices
are so heigh, travelling so difficult, and robbery
so common, that when you have made your
" pile" you cannot always get away with it;
and, in short, no man need expect to bring a
fortune home from Frazer river, unless he took
one there with him, and even then the chances
are that he will leave the best part OF it be-
hind him.
A correspondent of the Springfield Repu6h-
can says that a natural daughter of Aaron
Burr, and his residnary legatee, m curoi-
ously into possession of quite a fortune, in
this way: Burr held a lease from Trinity church
of the Richmond Hill property, three or four
hundred lots in the centre of New York for
66 years He deceased them for So years to
Astor and others, and their leases expires in
1860. The lease for three years then belongs
to Burr's daughter, and the claim is indisputa-
BILE, and the value Of the lease very great
Already several of the leases have compro-
missed their claims for from $500 to $4,000
per lot.
Mr.. Morphy, the American chess player,
has been astonishing the Parisisans by re-
peating his extraordinary performance of play
ing eight games with eight separate players
at once and the same time without seeing the
boards. Mr.. Morphy won six Of the games
and the other two were drawn. The play
lasted ten hours, during which time Mr.. Nor
ply never took the slightest refreshment, and
at the conclusion he did not appear to be much
fatigued.
On Sunday afternoon last, an alteration
occurred in Woodbury., n. j., between a white
man, named Dilks, a resident of that place,
and a colored man named Charles Thomas,
who was in a state of intoxication. A fight
ensned, during which Thomas stabbed Dilks
upon the right side of the neck, i~nficting a
shocking wound several inches in length. The
injured mai was picked up and conveyed to a
house in the vicinity, where his wound was
dressed, but the attending physicians had no
hopes Of his recovery. The assailiant was at
once arrested and placed in the Jail at that
place.
Mrs. N. Sayre, at Elizabeth, has raised this
season on two vines, ten squashes the weight
of which is half a ton. Some squash that !
The seeds from which these prolific vines were
raised came from Africa,
Martha Morgan a handsome young widow,
residing in Johsnon county N. c., was tried a
few DAYS ago, on a charge Of having murdered
Alexander Allen, a constable, who had levied
on her furniture, and applied aggravating Ian
guage to her. She was acquitted.
One day last week, a gentleman and lady,
travelling on the Central Railroad, ascertain
ed that they were going in the wrong direc-
tion-they wanted to go on the Rome and
Waterfowl road. in this dilemma the two
went to the platform of the coach, aud the
gentleman, taking the lady in his arms, jump
ed to the ground. Both fell-the lady be-
meath the gentleman--and she struck her head
upon a tie. Some people on the train thought
the gentleman's legs were run over, but that
is not certain. The lady was evidently severe
ly hurt, as somebody wac seen to raise her
from the ground entirely helpless.
The Bangor. Me-, Union, in noticing the
death Of the venerable Rev. John Sawyer,
long and Familiarity knoWn as " Father Saw
yer,n says: Z" He was born in Hebron, Conn.,,
on the 9th Of October, 1855. At the age of
20 he entered the army, and was present at
the capture of Burg0yRe. In 1885, he gradu-
ated at Dartmouth. Two years afterwards,
he settled at Oxford, n. H., where he re-
NAMED until 1895. For the past half cen
tury his field of labor has been in Bangor and
vicinity. He was one Of the founders Of the
Bangor Theological Seminary. He had at
tanned the great age of one hundred and three
years and four days, and was believed to be
the oldest clergyman in the United States.
General Commonfort, ex-Presidento of Mexi-
co, was present at the encampmsnt OF the first
division Of the Massachusetts militia, last week.
He came on the ground in . haronche drawn
by four grays. He was received with much
honor, and was presented to the Governor and
other dignataries present.
Forty-nile of the camels belonging to the
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