Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1861-01-09 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MAN SEVEN DAYS WITHOUT FOOD OR FIRE.—A German shoemaker, name.' George Merkelin, who kept a shop in a temporary building in Garden-street, Hoboken, has been missing for the past two weeks, and his shop during that time has remained closed. Some of Merkelin's friends becoming alarmed at his unaccountable absence, applied to Corstable Haybeck, of Jersey City, to hunt up the man if pesible The officer has made diligent search for the past three days, but without gaining any tidings of his whereabouts. Yesterday, Constable Haybeek concluded to search the shop. Upon entering thy discovered Merkelin stretched out upon the flora without any covering, and apparently lifeless. He was, however, still alive, although very much emaciated and unconscious. Alter considerable effort, Merkelin was partially restored to conseioueners, when he stated that  _ of the _ the frozen over, presented appearances , between two ,  taker place •-•( blood a  hair  latter  then, found, " !mild ,=e, it bad  exactly corresponding with the hair on the „so of the deceased. From inquiries made by the police, it was found that the deceased, who was a bargeman, had been in company with • man of the same class, called James Jeffries, on Tuesday night, at a publichouse named the Jolly Farmers, Both men left this house together about II o'clock, and shortly afterwards they were heard to be quarrelling. Jeffries was yesterday apprehends n the charge, arid placed at the bar before Mr. Mil i- at the Woolwich Police-court, when Police constable Cornelius Grainey deposed that he took the prisoner into custody, and toll him that lie was charged witn Cie murder of William Munns, when the prisoner begia to cry, and said," Ah, it's a bad job, but I did not do it.•' The wife of the deceased man alsr deposed that the prisoner resides next door to her house, and on Tuesday night she heard him open his door between the hours of 11 and ;12 o'clock. Other evidence was taken proving that the prisoner and deceased had been quarrelling at the publichouse on the night in question. Mr. Maude then remanded the prisoner for a week. CHINA, —Foreign °Ace, bee. 30.—A telegram, dated St. Petersburg this afternoon, has been received from Sir John Crampton, statiog that intelligence had been received by the Russian Government from Pekin up to the 18th of November, confirming previous account*, but giving no new detaile. The status quo, which was considered to be satisfactory, had not been modified up to that date. Plecoursrixt.—A Tuscan correspondent, describing a visit to that late favourite of the British public, Maria Piccolomini, now the Marche delta Fargua, says "I was during a fortnight at a charming villa, throe miles from Siena, the residence of of the parents of our beloved and most celebrated artist, Maria Piecolomini, now Marchioness della Fargua, of the Dukes Caetani, and it WU by • miracle that this dear creature did not find herself in tumult and great peril on the return of the Swiss, headed by that assassin, the too infamous Schmidt, in the city of Neve, of which I will speak by and bye. When I arrived at the Villa Piecolotuini I found all the family reunited. Her sister Laura had, on the Bth of October, married a young Sienese, 23 years old, very rich, who possesses divers ;villas and a beautiful palace in Siena. An heir to the family of La huge& is expected in April."