Glasgow Courier. — 1850-01-01 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

ARTFUL STRATAGEM.  A n•ood deal of excitement was caused in the neighbourhood of Niagara Falls, on the 27th of Nov. last, by the report that a lady named Mrs. Miller had thrown herself over these Falls. It seems that she arrived in the morning train, having with her two little boys, four and six years old. After taking rooms at the Eagle Hotel, she called for writing materials, and nothing more was heard from her until next morning, when the boys rang the bell and inquired for their mother. On the table of her room were found three letters, respectively addressed to Major Miller, U.S.A., the Hon. J. Norvell, of Detroit (Michigan), and the landlord of the Eagle Hotel. A copy of the last epistle is before us. It announced that the mind of the writer (Mrs. Miller) was "made up;" that she found life no longer worthy of preservation, and therefore intended to commit suicide—in such a manner as to prevent any of the morbidly curious from "gazing on her mangled remains." The letter also commended the little boys to the care of their grandparent—the Hon. Mr. Norvell above-mentioned. The children, on being interrogated, stated that their mother had "bid them good-by" on the precdding evening, when she put them to bed. During the day her bonnet was found on the pier of the bridge leading to Goat Island, and her shawl tied to the railing. It was supposed, as a matter of course, that the unfortunate lady had sought rest for her troubles in the abyss below. But, alas for the romance-writers! the Republican of Buffalo too soon dispelled the visions of the "lovers of the marvellous," by a provokingly matter-of-fact paragraph, stating that Mrs. Miller (the supposed suicide) was still alive, and that she had preferred the embraces of rosy Cupid to those of pale Death—having, in short, eloped with "a friend" from Philadelphia. The theatrical arrangement of the letters, and the shawl and bonnet was, of course, a mere rum to induce the belief that the body of the frail one was drowned in the Falls of Niagara. The circumstances which thus relieved the public mind are too closely connected, and too well attested, to leave room for a doubt that Mrs. Miller is alive and well, and, for the present, enjoying the society of her paramour, one Mr. Henry Blakemer, of Philadelphia. The lover is described—not very poeti, Cally, by the way—as a man five feet eight inches high, the state of whose beard certified that it could not have scraped acquaintance with such a thing as a razor for at least three , or four weeks.  An Unlucky Shot.—As a party of sportsmen were recently shooting in the wood, to the south of Tain, one of them observed a movement in a whin bush, which he thought to indicate the presence of a deer or roe. He fired his gun, and to his horror and surprise he soon discovered that the !slug took effect in the back of a poor old woman, who had been gathering fire-wood. Medical attendance was immediately procured, and we are glad to understand that the woman is likely to recover from the effect* of the seeldeat. IsWrMU Cowrittr.  off-7C-ially announced on the 14th of January,unless some untoward event occurred before then to prevent it. A hostile meeting was to have taken place between M. Sartorius, Minister of the Interior, and M. Sanchez Silva, in consequence of some assertions of the latter in the Chamber of Deputies, which the Minister had stigmatised as calumnies, and defied him to repelt elsewhere.