Daily national Democrat., 1858-12-04
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JoNEsBoRo', Tenn, Oct. 90, 1853.
j. W. FoRNEY-Dear sir: We understand
that a Washington paper has doubted the
genuineness of public meeting held at
Bridge Place, Tennessee, 1.-THE proee eedincs Of
which were published in the Press. stating
that it was "bogus meeting" gotten nm for
the purpose of imposing on YOU dc. which
we deny. We were members of the meetinc
and vOuch for its genuineness-for its being
IN every sense of the word bona tide gather
ing of the people together for the purpose of
expressing their predictions for Douglas for
President in 1850.
You will please make this statement. as
something due to ourselves personally, and to
those composing the meeting, en- masse
THOMAS B. GRAHAM,
TALBOT GREENE.
ATTEMPTED SuIcIDEBYA A BoY.-A boy about
twelve years of age, son of Mr. Lewis Mon.
ty, of Chazy, New York, attempted to com.
NIT suicide by hanging himself in his fathers
barn, on Sunday week, but was cut down
by his brother before any great harm was
done. The reason assigned for committing
the attempt was that his father refused to
purchase a dog which he was desirous of
getting. His residence is not over sixty rods
from Mr.. Gordon's, who committed suicide
the other day. 1t is thought that he did not
seriously intend to make an end of himself
but to frighten his father into the purchase
of the dog The excitement attending Mr.
Gordon's death, without doubt, suggested to
the boy the idea of getting up little agita.
ton for his own particular benefit. A few
well directed blows with blue beech rod,
applied to his dorsal extremities, would be
very likely to cure him of those fancies
which would make hanging by rope such
peasurable exercise.-PittS6urgh Express.
Mrs. Lydia Studley has been convicted at
Providence r. l., of poisoning her husband.
She Is siXty-hve years of age, and only few
months ago married Edward StudIey, aged
seventy-hve' She thought at the time of
tie marriage that he had property. which
proved to be an error, and as he was feeble
man he became burden to her and shortly
after died from the effects of poison. which
the jury evidently believed was administered
10y her.
Richmond L. Jones, son of Hon. Jehu
Clancy Jones, has been appointed private
Secretary to Commander Riddey. of the
steamer Atlanta, one of the fleet ordered
upon the expedition to Paraguay Is there
nothing else, says Forney, that grateful Ad-
ministration can do for the immortal member
from Berks =?
Occasional thus writes to the Press:
WASHINGTON, Nov 4, 1853
Your dispatches announcing Haskin's tri-
umph, and the decisive victory of Judge
Douglas, came together, just as the Treasury
Department were felicitating themselves on
the prospect of the defeat of both. Haskin's
defeat was to be heralded as your special de-
feat while the overthrow of Douglas was to
be held up as warning to all who dared to
follow his noble example. The dismal coun-
tenances OF these parasites can only be de-
seribed by Hogarth pencil They are real
ly piteous to behold | never saw such pal
lid and terror.stricken faces. Clayton, of
the Treasury, is especially chapfalen. He
has hated Douglas with a very ecstasy of
while Governor Cobb reads the
future as the despairng pilot of a ship reads
the fatal breakers upon which he is resistless-
ly rushing. The men who induced Mr.. Bu-
chanan to take the course which has precip-
itated these results-who told him that he
could crush out, under his iron heel, the
brave hearts that throbbed against fraud and
wrong, look in each others eyes, amazed and
full of self-reproach. What the President
may think is not for me to say. lie can now
solve the Kansas question without difficulty.
The people have furnished him the secret
SUICIDE OF PRoFEssoR CHnrox.-Gravier
street, nearly opposite the St Charles Hotel,
was the scene of one Of those dreadful TRACE
nies which sometimes occur to startle and
horrify.
Professor R. II. Chiffon, well known for
his scientific attainments, having been a pop
ular lecturer on geology at one time, and
but lately a ship broker, committed suicide
early this morning, at his office, III Gravier
street
On entering the back Office a strange scene
met the eye. A candle was burning on a
table near the body of deceased, which indi
Gated that he had committed the act at an
early hour this morning. while on the desk
upon which the deceased rested, a vial of
laudanum, nearly drained of its contents,
bottle of brandy, and a tumbler which con-
tained small portion of that liquor were
seen. AT his side was a pocket,knife, with
both blades open covered with blood.
The head of the deceased rested upon the
right arm as easily and naturally as if he had
fallen asleep in that position. His clothes
We're saturated with blood, and on examin-
ing the neck as far as possible great gashes
were found, as if he had, in his desperate and
fatal determination, struck as violently and
cut as deeply as his strength permitted. On
the left side of the throat under the ear, the
won IDS we te rible, while Sig t wou
appeared on the jaw, just above IN the effort
to reach the throat. On the left side of t. .
throat deep wounds were also to be seem
Before the deceased was a looking glass, in
which he must have gazed, in order to see
where and how to cut, SO that there could
be no failure. Both the big and the little
blade of the knife must have been used, from
the nature of the wounds. The blade must
have been first plunged into the throat near
the ear, and forced forward There were
other wounds upon the legs, and an effort had
been made to cut the artery of the left foot,
but without success. In addition to the
knife used in this self butchery, there was
smaller before the deceased, which was not
used, showing that the deceased had made
careful selection of the instrument of destruc-
tion.
The causes which led to this tragical result
are thought to be dissipation superinduced
by misfortune in business life.-N o. True
Delta, NoU. 5M.
WHAT THE New ORLEANS TRUE DELTA
TnrNKs-The True Delta thus spoke of the
Illinois contest few days before the cleo
ton:
In few days the fierce battle between the
contending hosts who follow the political
fortunes of Douglas on one side, and the
motley flag of the Abolitionists and the Ad-
ministration on the other, will have been
fought in Illinois OF its result nothing
rertain can he nredieted from, tho ont. .0i vi nos
of the presses supporting the constitutional