The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-03-02
The Recent TRAGEDY in Franklin.

| The Petersburg Express, referring to the
cause of the late airay In Franklin county,
Va, says:
The marriage between Mr.. James Clement
and Miss Victoria Smith. was solemnized
about two years ago last fall. and the nup.
| tials We're celebrated with great .eint. a bril-
liant party being given in honor Of the event
| which was attended by the elite OF the two
Counties, who focked in Ia, ge numbers, by in :
vitatiou, from all parts of that section, to do
honor to the joyous occasion.
For several mouths the welded pair lived
together with naught but the most unalloy ed
happiness shining on the rosy pathway Of
their early matrimonial career At length
the "green.eyed" monster, jealousy. reared
phls hcrrld front In the hoUs old of the happy
couple, and ultimately placed such ,estric-
tons upon the young and conlding wife as to
render her very existence urden too in toie-
rable 10 be borne.
She finally resolved to leave the roof of her
| nus band. and reno ed to the residence of her
mother. Mrs. DR.. Albert Smith, in the county
oi fittsylvania, where she now resides and
by the advice of her friends during tha fall of
| 1850, instituted suit against her husband for
! divorce Soon after the institution of the suit
the pafues met AT Sandy Level, Pittsyivania
county, for the purpose Of taking dispositions
| terr Il charge was made by the usband, Mr.
James Clement, which Involved alike the honor
OF ms wife and that of Mr.. William Gil.
peri, young gentleman present, which WAS
resented by Mr.. Gilbert on the spot. Pistols
were drawn on both sides and nine shots ex-
changed, five Of which took effect, iniurng
| Mr.. Gilbert and his brother as well AS Two Of
ously.
Inis serions affray, of course greatly in.
| creased the il-feeiing which had been engen-
dered between the parties, and the matter
iinally became much talked of that most
OF the citizens of the two counties were in
| VOWED IN the difficulty, each party having its
| warm and Jealous adherents
AIDED TO other causes which had
ranged the two families, some time since Mr.
| James Clement, the husband, by some means
oottlhed possession of a sprightly child the
only issue OF the marriage, and placed it with
ms own Relatives The grandfather Captain
Wlicher, and large party of friends deeming
this an outrage, and believing that the mother
was the proper custodian of the te lder Off
spring, by due process of law recovered the
infant, and restored it to its maternal parent
Mr. Jame- Clement was about twenty-eight
years OF age, and the youngest of fl i've brothers
ne was farmer by occupation. His brother
Ralph was lawyer, and Johnson the other
brother killed. was like James, also a farmer.
Two other brothers emigra,cd West several
years ago. The father of the unfortunate
young men who have thus met such violent
deaths. is DIR. George Clement, a wealthy and
prosperous farmer. He formerly resided in
FRANKLIN county, but has recently removed 10
| PIttsyIvania.
Mrs Victoria Clement formerly Miss Vic
| toria SMITH is said to b" lady of about TWEEN
| ty-one years OF age; Possesses extraordinary
personal beauty, and is highly accomplished.
| She is a daughter of the late DR. Albert Smith
|
dren-two sons aud three daughters. His
widow still survives, with whom Mrs. Nicto-
| ria Clement has resided since she left the
| home of her hus sband
| We understand that up to the time of the
difficulties growing out of the unfortunate
marriage between the two families. DIR. Gle
ment and Vincent Witcher. Esq, We're what
may be termed bosom friends.
JOSEPH SMITH, JE.-Efoy:s to place hihq at
tie head Of NormomiSm.-A respondent Of
the ST. Louis Republican, writing from Maui
| WOO, under date of the 18th Inst, says
| Joseph Smith, Jr., son of the Prophet is
here, as also the other members of the family.
| Joseph is understood among the Saints to be
| the successor of his father in his prophetic
| office, and it is hinted among the would be
wise ones that he is about to assume the robes
| of his sacred office. BE that as il may it is
| true that he is now entertaining deltga ion
| from Salt Lake. who are using every persua-
| sion in their power to convince the Young
prophet that he is called of God forthwith to
assume the office and proceed to Salt Lake, and
| take the head of the Mormon Council. Joseph
is man of good strong sense, and should he
| undertake the station. l have no doubt would
endeayor 10 make reform among his people.
| He l. decidedly agans, poiygamy, in favor of
obedience to law, and opposed, III any form,
| to milking the gentiipS
| 1t is to be hoped that he will undertake the
task. and succeed iii making Salt Lake the
| home of upright, law abiding citizens. tead
| Of 4 den of thieves. Joseph. however, is beset
Oh the other side by an organization of Nor
mons IN this State. who are to meet in Couu-
| ell a Amboy Oh 9th A prii next TO become their
head and TO call around him all the faithful
| It is not known that he will listen TO any of
| their proposals: but certain il is, If he refuses
the power within his control, he has quality
not given to common men, to resist when
| tempted with the certainty of power equal TO
that of any other living man, power that
needs not the armies OF France or Russia to
enforce it, but a power that is over the mind,
n
souls, without force and without expense.
| OUTRAGES on THE INDIANS IN CALIFORNIA.
A letter from San Francisco by the last steam
er, says the correspondence aud papers in
connection with the hostilities carried on
against several tribes of Indians in the north
ern part OF the State by party OF volunteer
under General kibbe, have been laid before
the Legislature. claim for SSu,OGu has been
presen ted as the cost of the service. The con j.
, duet OF The whites was most harbarous.-
Hundreds OF lndlans-men, women and chill
| dlen--Werp slaugh tered in cold blood by one
; party, called the Pitt River Rangers: They
. attacked a r1ncheria at night, and never
| paused until about 500 Indians, of all ages and
both sexes, lay dead on the ground.
The statements of the United States officers
and some stock owners, who had their cattle
stations in the neighborhood OF the Indians,
20 TO show that they CHE Indians) We're peace
able and Well disposed up to the advent of the
volunteers and bordermen. and had treated e
had the power, If they We're SO disposed, TO de-
stroy them and appropriate their stock. One
, statement is made. on the au thOrty of an Off
| Ger OF the United STATES army, which should
. be forthwith investigated. Lieut.. Dillon re-
| ports that Thomas Hcnly. accompanied by
some Of his people, in August last, proceeded
ID Eel river and captured a few Indians that
! | reside there in huts. Mr. IIenly, it seems, did
, not charge these people with any thug. He
| only considered they We're too near him, and
| night steal. One of the Indians wae lame Hud
| unable 10 walk Iienly shot him. or OF d"rca
| him to be shot. IIo excused himself on thC
| ground that the man looked like 4 had Infian
. | The pu bile indignation is very great agains,
| these volunteers not one of whom was killed
during the so-cailed campaign. 1t is high
| time that the United States should do some.
. | thing to protect from wholesale slaughter the
unfortunate indians of California. The wars
against them are invariably got up for spec :
lative purposes.
THE TRAGIC IN CoNNoN LIFE.-The sub
joined paragraph frc.n the Boston Evening
Transcript, is we'll worthy Of attention.
III a thoughtful citizen ofthis Republic, with
the usual degree OF moral senslbllity which be
! | longs to civilized man, Were to take file o
American newspapers issued during the las
month, retire into some seQucs'ered scene, de
| tach his though S from selfand the Immediate
and give his earnest reflection 10 the events re
, corded in these journals--what would he thinl
of our boas!ed civilization, and political ant
| social success Ire-Cccupation and famili
arity blind us to The enormity, the disgrac,
| and the peril of this era and country. More
!, accidents by land and sea, fire and water, oc
Think of that already old tragedy Of the Penn
berton Mill, the burning of the tenement
| house in New York, the explosion Of the fac.
| tory at Brooklyn, the successive and fata