Year: 1860

hanu, TO AVOID public disclosure of previous
criminality. A few months after he maid his
addresses to Miss Tirre, who. ere long
died suddenly, but without arousing any sus,
plcions of foul treatment. In short time
after her death her sister followed her to the
grave, as it is now known, by the same
means, and for the same motive. In the
meantime, the murderer was residing as a
son under the roof of their father, and, being
an invalid, was receiving the kindest atten-
tions from the family. Since the murder of
Dr. Parker the Massachusetts people have
not had such a shock to their feelings as this
tragedy at Weymouth.


That other triple murderer, Hicks. who
slaughtered three men on board sloop in
New York bay, last Spring, has been SEN
fenced to be hung on the lth of this month.
Hicks has made confession, which proves
him to be most bloody villain, having par.
ticipated in number of murders and other
high crimes previous to the cold blooded
tragedy on board the sloop in New York bav.
1t is fearful fact that crimes of enormons
and revolving nature are terribly frequent in
the records of the past year or two. The
moral eensiOilitics of this generation are, ap-
parently, more obtuse than those of previous
generations. Yet, occasionally, we see q
very remarkable exception to this eensure.
Last Fall an omnibus driver, either by care
lessness or accident, ran over young woman
in Broadway, causing her death in a few
hours A month after noticed an account
of the death of the driver, who had died
broken-hearted, of remorse, for the accident.
And, quite recently, the driver of an engine
on the Hudson River Railroad ran over a
man, killing him instantly. The next day
he was not able to drive his engine and, on
attempting it the third day, he fell dead on
coming to the spot where the man had been
killed by his indirect means.


The farmers of New England have met
with serious evil this Spring in the loss Of
numerous herds of cattle, by disease known
as lung murrain, or Pieuro Pneumonia, and
which has proven to be contagious, though
it has appeared in widely separated districts
and seems to be owing to local causes. The
Legislature of Massachusetts and Governors
of several States have found it necessary to
act upon the question of means for arrestng
the evil Commissioners have been appoint
ed to examine stock and to extermnate all
infected herds. Already ten thousand dol
lars have been expended by the State and
much more subscribed to compensate for the
wholesale slaughter of suspected or really
sick cattle. 1t is judged that, while the
State is willing to pay for and put out of the
way all sick cattle, that the disase will be
likely to continue Medical men are making
efforts to find a cure for the supposed incura-
bic malady.


Since my last letter nothing new has
transpired with regard to Mr.. Isaac G.. Fow-
Ter, except what the Leader calls his Last
Hours at the Hotel" From this it appears
he was making his arrangements to anticipate
his arrest by the use of an ivory handled re-
volyer, said to be one of the identical weap-
ons used by Daniel E. Sickles when he shot
Barton Key lie was prevented, however,
by the watchful care of his friends, who stole
into his room while asleep, and thus disarm-
ing him, gave him more pleasing alterna
tive to imprisonment than death would be,
namely, offered him money and The means OF
escape 1t is said that he will be furnished
by these friends with the means Of living for
two years, to give him chance of making
himself new interest in life in some other
country. Kind as this course may be to the
unhappy defaulter, it would have made it
of encouragement to folly and crime are not
needed to bring many Others into the same
dangerous straits.


The country in the neghborhood of New
FORK is looking beautifully. Central Park
has become an institution, and the fashion,
ables have agreed to make W Wednesdays and
Saturday their parade days in its winding
streets ] have been out into the interior of
the State, where all nature is rejoicing in her
summer glory. The crops are looking well,
and the prospect for fruit is very good. This
is the "locust-year," though as yet few signs
of them have appeared.


BY my next hope to send you some ac-
counts of the coming Conventions, from which
the campaign of She next few months is to
| take its character


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