THE DEAD'S ALIVE.--(From ...
The Times, 1824-12-29T00:00:00

THiE DRAD'S ALMVE.--(Fromn the Waishingtou- Gazelle.) -H (YNTSVI LEE, (Alabarma,Nov. 2._The mostextraordinary caso has just happened in this county that has ever occurred within our recollection. Samuel W. Standifer, a voung man of respectable connexioos, suddenly disappeared on Thursday evening the 21st uit., in a way so mysterious 2S to induce a 1reterol beliefiin the neigi. boarhed that he wvas mnurdered Suspicion inmediatelY attacbed' to his uncle, Jesse Standifer, an oldl and respectable citizen, with whom there was known to be a misunderstanding. But what gave colouring to the supposition that he was murdered, and that his un- cle was the perpetrator of the foal deed, was, that the next morning the young man'a horse, saddle, and bridle, were found at the old gentleman's cotton-Rin, about 200 yards from his dwelling. Upon inspection, the saddle and bridle were found to be stained with blood, the bridle-reins contained several spots, and the saddle was marked with a large impression as if made with a bloody hand. This discovery at once fixed the guilt upon the unfortunate un- cle, and the whole neighbourhood were excited to an active inquiry Into the circumstances. It were needless to repeat the many idle reports which immediately took wing upon the occasion. Search was made for several days for the rnurdered man, but in vain-he was not to be found. Guilt, tevertheless, was fixed upDn the uncle, and he was forthwith arrested with his twvo sons, and brought before a magistrate for inquiry, when the following facts were disclosed:- It was proved by the uncle that the young man was seen by a neigh. bonr of the first respectability, on the evening of his departure, rid- ing on the road which leads by the uncle's: that after the young man had passed his uncle's aboat two miles and a half, the witnessbetween seven and eight o'clock at night, overtook him a-foot, stopped and conversed with him for several minutes. The witness suspecting from his conduct that something was the niatter, pressed uporn him a dis- closure, when the young mnan, upon enjoinung secrecy, stated that he was about to plav a trick, and abandoned his horse, saddle, and bridle, for that purpose, anid was then on his viav to some distant place where he would never be heard from again. The witness described his person, clothitag, &c., and was positive as to the iden- tity of his person. Two other witnesses were examined on the part of his uncle, by whom it appeared that a young mnan, corres- ponding precisely with the description of Samuel Standifer, ha'd lodged in tie house of one of them on that night, and related to thenns that he was by the name of Standifer, and nephew to the ac- cused. This evidence being an full and explicit that the young man was still living, the uncle and his sons were immediately di.- charged. The uncle and his friends, consclotus of their innocence, and the inore fully to acquit themselves of the unjust imputation immediately despatched a messenger in search of the nephew,I who, after eight or ten days, found him near Florence, and brought him to Huntsville, alive, last Sunday evening; thereby givinig an ocular -4emonstration to a jealous and highly incenised community, that they had been charged falsely. It turns out that the young man resorted to this ieefasious and vicked stratagem to eft'ct his uncle's destruction; and actually cut his own finger, stained his bridle and saddle, and left them and his horse at his uncle's cotton-gin, for the express purpose of inducing the public to believe that his uncle was the murderer. A most diabolical scheme. But his plot failed, and he is brought back to receive the punishment due to his perfidy. In addition to the evidence givep on the trial of the uncle, it is proper to mnention that the young man be- fore his departure, had made a confidant o," another uncle, to wvhom lie had disclosed his wicked intentions, and enjoined liini upoI per- petual secrecy: but when the intended victim wzas found in jseo- pardy,the uncle promptly interposed and disclosed the whole scheme. The result of this adds another lesson to the many already given to the World, what little confidence is to be placed in circumstantial testimony. Hlundreds of innocent men, no doubt, have suftere(d death in a similar wav; and, but for the delivering hnnA of Provi. dence, the venerable Jesse Standifer might, and probably would,have been sacrificed,'to appease the vengeance of an incensed comniunity. D.GHGEIIous CAsE OF POISONING SUCCESSFUI.LY rwEAT-ED.-Yeiterday ( Friday), In A nderson'slnsdituticn, during the abaence of Dr. Ure, a y,oang-nan, in rummaging through some private dravwers, enclosed withiin a pres', in wVhicii various curious. specimens and pieces of apparatus veere kept, happeued to cast his eyes on some small c3vered nots of porcelain ; and, opening one of tbern, swallowed tlioughtlessly a niorsel of its contents, which must from its efleets have been the extract either of aconite or of hem-. lock, made by the improved process in vacio. Such preparations are extremely efficaciou$ medicines in small quantities, but become very energetic poisons when taken ini as undue dose. le bad no sooner swallowed the morsel than he became nearly speechless, and soon thereafter lost also tbe taculty of deglutition. Fortunately Dr. Ure's chymical assistant was at hand, who immediately administered hIot water and"a solution of sulphate of zinc (a quick emetic) in large quantities. It wa,, however, found to be impossible to excite vomiting. A flexible tube ef caoutchouc, attached to a syringe (commenly called Juke's apparatus), was speedily procured, and tile extremity of the smooth tube being put down into the stomach, the contents of this cavity were thoroughly pumped out. A quantity of' warm water was next injected, (for by this time the patient could not swallow), and 'then withdrawn. After the stomaCh had been thus washed with about six syringe. fulls, equivalent to nearly six pinlts of liquid, the young man felt himself almost well. As he stil coin- plained of an 1ev coldness over his body, a dose of sulphuric ether was a4ministered, which relieved this unpleasant symptom, and he soon became able to walk home withollt assistance, in a convalescent state. [t deserves to be stated, that in the year 1821, Dr.Urebrosl:gbt over with him from Paris, two oftthe aboveflexible caoutchlouc tubes, for evacuating the stomach in the above 'manner, and that he has annually since, descibed minuttely in his public lectures, this mechauieal plan of removing poison fromn the stomach. iMr. Jukes is no doubt entitled to the praise of having first made a pub- lic excer vsent with this apparatus, on bealthy individuals Wi Lon- (lor.. 'rhe method, however, has been long knowvn to the Parisian surgeons. The present case shows its efficacy and importaiice; for there can be little doubt that the patient would have fallen a victim to his imnrudence but for its seasonabie application. Whlen the sto- nach is oppressed with a collection of acescent, bilious, or viscid matter, as happens in dyspepsia, and many other maladies, the above instiumsmnt may be. beneilcially employed for evacuating the m6orbid contents, in the p lace of esuetics, which, from peculiar circumstances, may become either totally irig4rnisgible, o. very ha:Z3rd"u-G1as- eow C?ronikJ