Year: 1868




We are indebted TO friend wash
ington for the following axtracts from
she washington papers in reference to
the sad and untimely death Of Hon. @.
s. HAM1LroN:


(From the National InteIligencer.)
We have to record, with iuexpressible
sorrow, the news of the tragic fate Of
Hon, @. s. Hamilton, of the Eighth Con-
gressional District Of Ohio. The horri-
bic fatality Of death at the hands Of his
own son, whose insanity had hurried
his departure from Washington, is one
calculated to excite the deepest emo
tiOns of the human heart, and to evoke
the most profound sorrow for that most
terrible curse-murderous insanity
that can be imagined OF all that flesh is
But OH how overpoWeriug is the Eor-
row that glOOms over the living reia-
tiVes of the murdered man not for him
alone, but for that state, worse than
death, which pertains to the parrlcide,
and which viii be awful in the extreme
should reason ever regain its sway over
his distracted, torn and wrecked mind.
Awful crimes of the kind, now commit
ted upon prominent public man, are
Of constant occurrence throughout the
country, but the heart is never chilled
as In an instance like the present one.
How insCrutaole are Che ways of Prov
idence a father going home TO his
family to preserve and save ozo Of his
own offspring, and thus to gladden. the
family hearth on an occasion of general
festivity, is suddenly sent into eternity
by the frantic hand Of his child. Bhe
Congress Of the United States has never
been called upon to make expression in
respect to the death Of q member which
so harroWs the souls of associate mem
bers, and Of friends and relatives, as in
the present case.


CFrom the Washington Chronicle9


The painfully sad intelligence was re-
ceiYed in this city yesterday that Hon,
Cornelius S. Hamilton, preventative
from the Delaware district, Ohio, was
killed at his home in Marysville, Union
county, on Sunday morning, by an in
sane son. The boy is about eighteen
years ofage, and until two weeks ago
was Of sound mind. His father LEFT this
city on Thursday last for the purpose of
taking such measures as might he nee
essary in his case. We have no details
in regard to the terrible tragedy except
that the deed was committed with an
axe, and thar the maniac, after killing
his father, turned upon a younger
brother. and inflicted severe wound
upon him before he could be secured
Mr.. Hamilton was one Of the most
wealthy and influential men in the
county in which he lived, and was
especially known and loved for his deep
interest in all benevolent enlerprises,
and his kindness toward the poor Of his
neighborhoOd. Politically he was a very
thorough and sincere radical; a man of
strong convictions and firm ia his adbe-
renee thereto. He served sometime fin
the State Legislature in which he was
a cotemporarY Of Judge Chase, and un-
der the administration Of Mr.. Lincoln
he held an Important office in the rev
enue service. His age at the time Of
his melancholy death must have been
about fifty years. He leaves a wife and
six children, whose deep af1iiction in
this sad bereavement is intensified by
terrible manner in which it was brought
about, and the hopeless insanity of him
through whom it occurred.