New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-10-25


ASoTHIR NuRpIR.-Abont 4 o'clock yesterday
afternoon, a man named John Mortimer, ginger-win
peddler well known in the city, was Killed AZ the cor
ner Of Sycamore and Court streets bya .tao ~ INC
back with /, knife in tho hand Of a r0wdy Known as
Gus. Ward. The circumstances are about as Toll
ows: Ward entered the coiee-house OF Mr.. Butt,
orner Of Sycamore aud Court streets, and, becoming
disordcry, two or three times put into the street
by the proprietor Soon after, Mortimer drove
up with his wagon and sold MIR. Butt guan.
iity of wine, and, while they were settling, Wsrd
again entered the house and interiered between
the two in the business they were transaetlng.
Some words passed between him and Mortimer,
and the latter left the house closely followed
by Ward. The deceased passed to tine opposite
side of the street, apparently endeavorIg to escape
from Ward and tell to his knees on the curb stone
Ward then seized him by the hair Of his head, and,
drawing large knife stabbed Mortimer in the back,
lust between and below the shoulders. inibcting
wound from which he died in Il few minutes. ward
started n upon the run but was pnrsued and captured
square or two below, having thrown the knife win
which the wound was inflicted into the canal as ha
passed. He was taken 10 the Ninth. street station
by Policeman Townsend and locked up IN cen, where
be Iaved Ike n mailman all the afternoon. MI. Mor~
timer is described "a a man OF peaceabe disposition.
lie leaves n wife and two children who are VI present
at indianapolis. Ward is desperate, who has served
one term in the Penetepsry for arson ana Sihce DE
discharge has spent good share Of ms time II tie
i,s ard ,tstion .houses Cincinnati Gaz. 2ld.
HORRIBLE TR,GFDY.-We are informed that
suicide Of most distressing character occurred IN the
township Of Caradoc on Thursday, the i4th. IL APP
pears that the unhappy man who has Destroyer nun.
lelf. wasn farmer in that township, by the name OF
Charles Bateman. lie had been drnkjns s6o1 $50!
At Mount Brydges ard finally ..1,s home a bottle OF
whisky the greater portion Of which he drank. In
the morning he proceeded to an adjoining room, took
down his gun, which was loaded, aud placed the stock
against the wall, with the muzzle to his breast. By
applying the ramrod to the trigger, the gun went off,
the charge entering the unhappy man near the heart,
causing instantaneous death. II IL believed he was
de- lirium 'rkme n the time
Montreal Transcript, IN.
WHEAT RIcnr HAVE BLACK MoTHtRs TO Low
THEIR CHILDREk.-SOme years ago the Rev. John
g.. Fee of Kentucky bought nom his father ian Elder
in the o. ). Presbyterian Church. old slave woman
who had nursed him il infancy. He at freed her.
and she found home in the village of Felicity, some
ten or twelve miles across in Ohio: About yearago,
having been long from her children, the Oh woman
returned over 10 her old home in Kentucky " seq
them. The meeting Of this Old woman with her chill
dreD, after the yeare OF absence in Ohio, very az
feciDg, but their master Immediately ordered her OF
the premises and forbade her TO rec them again. This
poor, comfortess black Rachel made feeble effort,
since ,he could net go 20 her Children 10 have them
to ber ia land Of freedom but she arrested,
dragged TO Kentucky jail and will probably spend
the remnant of her days in Kentucky penitentsry.
lcincinns,i Gazette
RTNoyAL OF LAND OFFICES ~ MisSssOrA.-ln
accordance with instructions heretofore issued the
Lard Offices at Faribaut and saltwater, in Minnesota,
have advised the Department that their respectye
Cfioes will be removed as follows: That from Fah-
bault to ST. Peter on the "a Of December next, and
that from Stilsater TO Cambridge on the 18th De-
cenb.r next on which days they viii be respectively
opened for business at the last-named places.
Tn, NATIONAL FAIR ~ VrRGNIa.-EA,ensiye
rreparsons are going on for the Annual Fair Of tho
Agcultura society Of the United States which 10 tn
he held dlsrg this week at Richmond, Va. The
annual address il to be delivered by the Hon Caleb
Cushing Of Massachusetts. Addresses also TO be
Delivered by Gov. Wise and Messrs. WIN. C. Riyes,
Jemes Lyon and VIM. ii. Mcfarland OF Virginia.
ASINoCLAR SURGICAL OPERAIIos.--A man named
Berry, residing 10 Petersburg, was suffering intense
pain last week from feon in his hand. On the 9TH
INST he seated hmsef by the track Of the Petersburg
Road, and When the train approached cooly laid hls
b. LII the rail- the passing AMI severing
il from the wrist. The Consequence il that he wild
have TO undergoa second operation at the hands VI the
surgeon.
QUICK MoyEsEsr % TRooPs.-Private advice
have beea received at the War Department Of the Or
rival at Fort Vancouver, Washington Territory, ofths
detachment Of troops sent out in July last This de-
consisting Of 40 resra,- let Newfork
Ciyon the 2l, July, end arrived al Fort Vancouver
on the 18th Of August, ..lhont s.y estra:y sA.ep:
tie lyss q ole r'aI.