Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1861-04-03
CAN'T PAss.-Thc Lynchburg (Va.) Repul-
lican, of Monday, has the following para.

CAN'T PAss.-Thc Lynchburg (Va.) RepuL-
lican, of Monday, has the following para
graph:
Mr.. Crook, Lincoln's Mail Agent IN the
Alexandria Road, made his first trip up, Sat-
ur'!ay, and, in passing Charlottesville, was
waited OH by Il committee Of citizens, who
informed him, in the poItcst manner possible,
that lie had better throw up his com ;ssion
and retile from the public service, or he would
be dealt with according to his deserts as a
Black Republican, who would never Lc per.
miticd to scatter his foul teachings over Eir-
ginia soil. Mr.. c., thinking s,!iscret;on the
better part Of yalor,' consented to resign on
his return to Alexandria, and lie was ,c,-
mittcd TO pass. 1t is also stated that the said
gentleman, upon reaching this city, Saturday
evening, made castle of his mail car, from
which he was afraid 10 bulge and come out in
the city, but remained safely ensconsed in it
until his departure yesterday morning, scId-
ing the mail mp by substitute
a INDUSTRIOUS ElLLAIy-Aichael Kennedy,
q drayman Of st. Louis, was arrested there { n
Thursday, charged with attempting to procure
the murder of his wife. The villain offered
physician, who WAS in Attendance upon the
poor woman, 800 if he would mix poison
with her medicine and thus kill both the moth.
er and her infant three weeks old The doc
tor pretended All agreement to the proposition
and even fixed time for the administering of
the fatal dose, when TO still further tempt him
to the performance Of his mur'lerous contract,
Kennedy paid him half the sum agreed upon
-$50--in advance. The doctor then notified
the police Of the plot, and when Oh the ap.
pointed day Kennedy called for his accomplice,
and with vial of supposed poison accompa-
MED him to the chamber Of his wife in order
that he might witness the accomplishment Of
his iiendish purpose, he was encountered there
by the officers, who conducted him to jail
The melting cause OF the crime was krnne.
dy'S passion for a damScl whom he was desi-
rous OF substituting in the stead Of his wife
and mother Of his two children.
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MONEY Woy BY DEAD MAy.-At Koc.
then, Saxony, recently, gentleman engaged
in play at faro table, and died in his seat.
His death was not discovered until his money,
by being left on the table all the while, ha,.
won a heavy sum. A law suit resulted be.
tween the banker and the dead players heirs,
which was decided in favor Of The latter.
A PRorMEcY Br TIE PupE.-A letter from
Rome in the Gazette du MIDI, represents the
Pope to have spoken in the following pro.
phetic strain when the priests appointed 10
preach the Lent sermons were presented to
him :" In the space of two nigh ) Ill the
truth has become known 10 me k%ow that,
on account Of the scandals which fll the sane
tuary, the wrath Of God is about to fall on us
Those who long for the blood Of priests will
be able to satisfy their thirst Cnexampled
crimes will be computed Against the rock
OIL which I an seated men will rush, hoping
to destroy it; but they will only free it from
the dross which bas accumulated on it, and it
will then crush thcni."