Corydon Press, and Anti-Masonic Democrat, Volume 2, Number 10, Corydon, Harrison County, 3 November 1830 — Page 5

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atftin aT hundred thousand volumes, and deny ts evii that have been proven by a thousand sc ceder and legally established in courts of justice.

rVe know notniogoi masonry," fay iney "out it 2s a noble institution.11 They are its mere, servants) doing the laborious drudgery at the outworks of the temple which they are wit permit ted to enter. Poor blind tools! their contumacy tvill.be their destruction; they trill not see their impending fate. The tottering fabric of the mysterv warns them of "approaching danger,11 warns

them to immediate flight, .-or km cru?htd beneath Its ruins VERITAS,

THE KIDNAPPPR. ; ; Abont ton days ago, Jaw&sGilles, si high Ma on of the Kidnappers and perhap murderers, of William Moigan, was arrested in Jefferson Coun ty, Pennsylvania, by the Sheriff of Indiana County, in pursuance of a warrant obtained from the J)iatrict Judge, (John Youug, q.) by an officer from the State of New Y rk ; whither tie has been taken to stand biatrial. It appears tui man was in the custody f the law once before, but through Masonic management he effected his e-capc. We do hope that this dark ani abominable affair will yet bti unravelled aiKi the guilty punished. Thi is blingtng th' muter pretty neat home, and how many of t ho murderer ur accessaries day be hirkiog even amongst ourselves, we do Bot pivterK' to know; t ut it. might be mutter of oerioun inquiry, did the Gieensburgh Lodge not &now something about it at the timet Did not a certain high Mason, a member of the Lodge, who Cook a trij to the North about that time, know tx rue thing about it? r It may yet be made appear that this nefarious transaction was known througnout the United States, and that more persons participated in it than wo at present have any idea of. Grcen&burgh Gazette.

MISCELLANEOUS.

MUTINY AND MURDER. 'An account of a mutiny and murder is given in the Boston Papers by Mr. Brewer, supercargo of the; Brig Mentoa, arrived at Boston on Saturday last, from which the New York Post makes tho following summary: On the 11th ultimo, in north latitude 13 10, longitude 45 52, the Mentos hovo in sight of a brig; which proved to be the Orbit, of New York, Samuel Woodbury; late master, forty Seven days from Axim, coast of Africa, bound tor NVw York. The brig made signals of distress and sent her boat frith three men, al)lack of Baltimore, a West Indian and an Italian, on board the Mentos. They said that Copt. Woodbury had died on the 18th August, of the Coast Fever, that there was no one on board who understood navigation, that they were ihof t of provisions, their sails torn, the brig leaky, that their cargo consisted of 100 casks palm oil, 1500 lbs. ivory, with $200 in specie, and that they intended to proceed to St. Tho' mas with the brig. An entry of the Captain's death had been made in (lie log book, signed by the crew The supercargo, second mate, and one of the crew of the Mentos went on board of the Orbit, where suspicions that all was not right were aroused.These were soon confirmed by ooe of the creo named Strikes, an Irishman, who showed anxiety to-escape from the Orbit, and effected it by shovV ing off in the boat alongside, contrary to the or dersof the rest of the crew. On reaching the Meo to, he voluntarily confessed that Capt. Woodbury hud he?n murdered on the 18th August, by Jott Demarais, the now acting Master. Thi confer ijn a confirmed by the Baltimore black, nam ed Bowen, and afterwards by the West fadiaanng Italian, on their being put in irons. It coming 03 s qually and dark, the Captain of the Mentos, Kara ing no provisions to spare, and not enough han

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.-mjar tarvV-i ne remove., uura. v. (;aD ,U(.k to the 0rbi, s,rikeJ and Bo Baltimore, over whom the opinion abed I so ma- thfir w.j(h lhe bri , log-book, letter to dv crocodile tear, and whose wife wrote the eel- " ,., m,rphxntain nL Vnrl, t,o .!,

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aaulted the Editor of the Baltimore Republican, (he QrLit th -wqM h m the street, with a bludgeon and pistol, lie was overboardf as a llot had been formed to murdc prevented by the bystanders from assassinating (hem The 0fb'it wag of m WlU ftt Balh the Editor. His reasons for thus attempting to in 1824, as appears by her register, and belonging murder the Editor of the Republican, wa the Q c vVoodbury and Messrs. B. Aymar k Co. publication of some racts relative to bis omcial 0f pfew York - delinquency, which he and hi friends were una- ' ble to controvert. He also threatened the lives . EXECUTION OF KNAPP. of several others of the Jackson party. He was, Agreeably to his sentence, John Francis Knapr however, arrested and bound over to keep the was yesterday executed in Salem. The peoplo peace. This is the feeble old man, who was un began to assemble about the prison in crowds, at Hble to provide for hi? helpless family, and whom an early hour, and soon after eight o'clock it b General Jackson so cruelly deprived of his office, supposfd that eight or ten thousaud men, women, though it seems he is not yet sufficiently reformed, and children, had collected to witness the scene,. We trust the Peace Officers of Baltimore will rin- By hn If patt seven o'clock, Knapp had taken leavo isb what the President begun. of the family in the cell where he had been confiied from the day of his sentence, and appeared Georgia Gold The amount of $230,000, was at the place of execution in the jail yard, attendreceived at Auguzt$, thftt State, during the lust ed by Joseph E Sprague, E-q. High Sheriff of Eft. rnQc moijtfw, K, and four Deputies. He was also ministered