Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1864-12-30 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ARRES-ToP MR S. lIARDINGE.—A few months since we announced the marriage of Mr S. Hardinge, an ex-lieutenant in the navy of the Northern States of America, to Miss Belle Boyd. a young lady whose patriotic devotion to the South had induced her to take an active part in the warfare raging between the two sections of the American republic, and who, under circumstances which gave proof of much courage and devotion, repeatedly penetrated into the Northern lines and returned to her friends the bearer of important information. The marriage took place under romantic circumstances, as thelieutenant, smitten with the charms of Miss Boyd, connived at her escape from the vessel in which she was being conveyed a prisoner; and afterwards, resigning his commission in the Northern service, followed her to London, where they were united at St. James's Church. We now learn that Mr Hardinge has been captured. He had crossed the Atlantic to visit his friends and relatives, and in the hope that he would be able to bring to Europe his wife's youngest sister, who, residing with her mother at Martinsburg, in Virginia, was exposed to the brutality of the Northern soldiery, and was daily in danger of meeting with the grossest outrages at their hands. So far as is at present known he was seized while at Mrs Boyd's house, by ' General Stephenson, commanding the post at Ilarper's Ferry, and is now lodged in the very prison at Washington in which his wife was confined during some portion of her adventurous career. The danger which Miss Boyd ran may be estimated when it is stated that the country around her mother's house has been repeatedly the scene of desperate engagement, that the estate itself has been laid waste by the Northern troops, and that all the male members of the family are absent in the service of the South, the only person left to protect the mother and daughter being an old negro. DESPERATE OUTRAGE BY GAROTTERS AT SitsvVisLn.—A very aggravated case was reported at Sheffield on Friday night. The town has been infested for several weeks by a gang of burglars and garotters, who have committed a number of daring robberies and outrages, but the most daring of their exploits is tha which we have now to report. A gentleman name Burnaby, of the firm of Burnaby and Wood, cos agents, and agent to Earl Fitzwilliam's collieries, live in Broomhall Park, on the outskirts of Sheffield, an. although the place is very secluded, he has been in th habit of carrying a satchel, containing the day's receipt' at the office, to his house at nights. This must have become known to a gang of garotters, and they way laid him on Friday night. Mr Burnaby had found o Friday night that a strap of the satchel was broken, an sent the money home in care of a boy, who arrive. safely at the house. Mr Burnaby, however, was no so fortunate, for on arriving within a few yards of hi. house he heard a footstep behind him, and he w instantly seized by the throat from behind, in the gm . of a garotter. Another man came in front, and struc Mr Buruaby several heavy blows on the face and chest but he contrived to get his neck free, and cried on "Murder." The garotters, who appear not to hay hesitated to secure themselves by murder, struck hi with bludgeons, and inflicted fearful wounds on his hea and over the tight eye. He still struggled, and th man who had hold of him behind cried out to his ac complices, "Kick him lower; d— you, kick hi lower." Immediately afterwards, Mr Burnaby receive a violent kick, or a blow, over the heart, which pros trated him at once, and he fell. The ruffians the robbed him of his gold watch and several pounds i gold, and made off. Several persons were coming u the road at the time, and they saw the men run awa A joiner, who was at work in an unfinished house clos• by, heard Mr Burnaby's screams, but did nothin, Surgeons were called in, and they found that Mr Bu naby had received such serious injuries on the throa and head that he was in imminent danger, Ile w. attended during the night by two surgeons, and w not allowed to speak for a long time. The unfortunate gentleman was not able to give a description of hi's a9sailants.