Weekly Messenger, Volume 1, Number 95, Vevay, Switzerland County, 6 July 1833 — Page 2
WEEKLY IV1CSSEKGEXI.
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It if my dut , if that was her sitir- ; do s;i,ctliir'. fur her; but he
i.d, h
.! advise me, and 1 consulted
e !!, tho lawyer, who advis :.c should be removed to B. 'i nac the laws of that stale c !'.unt aMe to a female hi her
He had inquired of me; but to keep it quite secret.
versation, fc marked cut t lie iond des
cribed on the floor, with chalk; and afterwards in the entry lie said Mr. Avery's life was worth thousands of world.
ur.ux the laws of Alassachu-J and depended on the testimony he could produce.
to Mrs. Raw son and mv- Cross-examined IVlr?. Avery and a
If iiCvi.iV duringthe camp meet-joung lady were present at the former l on the gro-md, Mr. Avery came up conversation. The stranger that saw
'ressing her, said " I passed through the gate whilst my fa
!
Jc iwr and
rnh: like t; cq ox-. Maria, and talk ther was at the mill w ith a grist, w hich
ttitli vo-!. as-csai i i wi imeet von this oetieve was net ween 1 1 ami icociock
wnn l;ic riorn
tMr. Bullock chalked out the road I men-
B it when we came to the tinned on the kitchen floor. Mr Bullock
blows for nrea
i
evo::r clung.'
house, ho s:ml " 'here is no room for usdid not stay to tea at Mr Avery's; there there, and w cannot have talk there. 'were only himself, his wife, rnvself, the
goo further;" a d he afterwards met'.Yog woman, and the children there, her bv co-vi!P.'r another wav, and after 1 was summoned here as a witness for
tilCY
her to
had trot
Ho the
oo-ls he asked ; lr. Avery;! have changed my boarding
metho-
nr..l r.
h?r glasses off. which she. house in consequence ot some
r!fni-cr further, to sil down.! dist persons having as much as said (hat
. t i i
.e tiH'M said s'ic asK-
e had b-irr ed those
v
-d him wh- 'her L'tter-. He fan
condition on which I will burn them. and settle the difficulty." That he then took hold of her hand, and placed his in her bosom she said she tried to get from him, but could not; that he then had a connexion with her, and on their way back to the camp ground, he told he would burn the letters he had
in Bristol. This she said was on Thursday. I don't know what day of the month this was but I think the meeting commenced on the the 20th of August. I never knew Mr. Paine to come to my shop except on business, and don't know that he was more acquainted with her than any other customer. I don't recollect that she said she had seen Mr. Avery after she came to my house until she saw him at the camp meeting. I have known her about eleven years. I believe she came from Thompson to Providcncc. She was a tailoress, and served her time at Norwich. I never paid my addresses to her, nor promised to marry her; I never thought of it, for 1 was engaged to her sister, my present wife. We always called her Maria. but her mother said her name was Sarah (or Sally) Maria. I have no distinct recollection that I said any thing to Mr.
girl,
I had sworn false at the last examin-
ation. In appearing here for the pros-
No, bit there is one'ei ution, have acted voluntarily; I have
not been spoken to by any person whatever to depose on this side; but the
methodist people had been asking me
why I could not say I saw the stranger
pass through the gate in the afternoon.
and as certain he did as in the forenoon which could not. Adjourned to Wednesday. EIGHTH DAY MAY 15. Philip R. Brunet.--I reside at Fall
tridge paper, of which the measure were made, on which I had been teach
Mr. Bullock was present at this con-/ing her the rules of cutting. I have
ao recollection that 1 ever saw her write with a pencil. These two words,
together with the writing in letters which I have received from her; and her writing in my account books enable me to know her hand She has directed letters to me, as to her other friends ; and I have replied to them. I think I wrote one letter to her, directed to Lowell. This was. I think, five or six years ago, but whether I received an answer I do not recollect. Q. Did you ever become bound for Sarah Martin Cornell when she was under a charge of theft. Ans. No, I never did. " I have received a number of letters from her directed to me on the outside, but inside to my wife her sister, or to her family in general. There was one which she wrote to me from Fall River, and one or two at least from Taunton. Chief Justice. Do you say under oath, that you believe that slip to be in her hand-writing? Ans. I do. Attorney General. If it please the court, I propose that this pencil wri iing, together with a letter found in the possession of the deceased, which is post marked ''Warren, R. I." and addressed to "Miss Sarah Maria Cor nell, Fail River, Mass." be now read to the jury: the letter is the one on
River. On Monday last.l walked fromVe!low paper, a id bears dale the 13th "Ur. John Dur fee's stack ard to the November. I 832.
lieve he is the same man; he had be fore been pointed out to me as Mr. Avery, and 1 recognized the person
The Cholera has made Ms urpenraoce
Mnd while it ha slain its hundred , fear
t Maria. Mr. Boyd has told
it -a-.i she is a poor unfortunate compassionately of her; ;.-,-.- T-o recollection of having . . r!; .vp talks j on other sub- .' " fc;:Pv? that she ever at-v:i.-:;de. or had any disposition
Direct ; rret
ded rer-io .resi,; c t U-
:el : I hare heard her . Avery iO.t the camp
f,:er with decierncd to have a
W.
sho left
hut i-ot ev-
l.fo:- K
i!Rl.
o rr' i iVfHi ti r iu r from tier alter
Woodstc d this one (pro-
dured) is (he sauv. It relates to the subject of our conversation with her. and w e received another letter from her on !). subject. &he made her fir?t staienier.t to us v.i:!. r.ppatent reluc-
tar.ee t lust t.-nn it !r m my wiie,
..vrjio awoke. me arid said Maria had got
ii,to trouble; aftc wards f ll three conversed upon the siil.jf'rt together, and she dirccily saiil that her intercourse had been with Mr. Averv. I nevr knew her !o !iae connexion with any nur. whilst in my liouse. declare upon mv oaih that -he nt-vvr had a connexion v, ilS-, ne. c,:inot tell tb.e time nor the
he week when these commnniwere first made.
Bristol reny, in order to ascertn in how short a time the distance couhi ae conveniently passed on foot. I stmt "l at 16 minutes past one, and arrive'1 it Mr. Giffirds at 13 minutes before three, being one hour and twenty-nine Tiinu'es. I carried my wnlch vr'wn aie. Benjamin Manchester walked villi me; (he wind blew prett) strong :y ahead from the south, indeed it blew .i-ry fresh;, some parts of ihe distance there the land lay on a desct-iit we rotted; but I did not fatigue myself We follow i a th road until we got over the ferry neck, then passed into the it-Ids, and carne out at the bars, just -outh of Gilford's house. Not knowing our way across the fields, we did not follow tNi,- nearest liact, but jot a little out of our way into a hog nl u e.
Mr. Randolph and the hon. J. Mason objected, and after an argument in vhich the couneel were heard respectively at. considerable length, the court decided that the letter did not come within the principle upon which the other letters had been admitted, and therefore ruled it out.. The slip of paper, however, the handwriting of which had been proved to be that of the deceased, was further evidence as to the. state of her mind, and might therefore go to the jury for this purpose;-but it could not go to them as evidenre noon the question of murder,
o far as thai question involved any act
oner at the bar.
11. e slip of paper was tiien read; it
WKS the paper louud in I he bandbox or li.t" derr.i-ed, wihlen in pencil, and
On Saturday evening the bells at F.iliJn,;iir tjle poocil with which it had pro River ring eailier than on other even. ; babh . on wii!en. rng; in the month of L)- fcmtx r tfieyj -If I am missing enquire of Rev Mr. -i y ring at a quarter before eight. , BristJ, he will know where I am No bell rings at iu..e; the factory boli-. s. M. CORNELL"
The. 20 h. Hon. J. jMason. If the court please.
1 wish ; disM K llv understand fr- m
of tiu p
tnkes nim
Cross examined at immense length, upon liit. number of dith icnt lours and
tunes of ringing the vinous lactory anayOUr -rf ors, whether the letters whif li nei lmg hou-e bells ai Fall River, butare gone to the jury, are to be used without any apparent object or result. jand commenced on merely as evidence Witness then pioceeUed to sa) my j to rebut tbe su?pirioti of'suicide, and
aiotive in starting liom the stncK y.rii:not to implicate any act on the part of
the prisoeert Chief Justice. There is one of them which goes as evidence be)ond this, and may therefore he used accordion-
od said "Lxperientia docet;" I said y; for "the letter which the prisoner so too. and was then asked if I would delivered to()rwell the engineer, con
looK nisi prcposeu io go wnn nerU iXm witn the deceased by an act
l ' ii T 1 . . ... 1.
iO f iill llVer, Was IU itStCllrllO HOW long it would take to walk ihe distance, because a dispute had arose on the poinl in referent e lo this trial. Some-
me, and afterwards Benjamin Man
chester, but he could not conveniently that afternoon. Dr. Hooper after
day of caiio r
jimin F. SannJers. was an ap-
pret.tice ol the last witness, know Sa-
of his own.
Attorney General. I mean in the close, to put that letter to the turv as
atds wished us to go, and said hejone proved to have been in his hands, would gel a puise made up to remu-ibj him delivered to another person, for neiate us for the trouble. It was pro-jtbe deceased; and then to submit to posed thai we should go as quick as them the natural inference that he was
we could, but I woulJ not consent to acquainted with tts contents: and this
it, but said I would walk it comfortably. The consideration of a reward had no effect, for I felt an interest in common with otheis to asceitain the (act in
luupstion. I was not much f;igoed,
rah M. Cornell, saw- her at the camp j n,ough we lio.ted nearly half the waj,
meeting, and brought ner Home. iwasj!tlj t(K, tj inv Coat to make myseli sent for her by Mr. Bawson, was Hi;Cll.nfollane. There was ahout Ibree the meeting about an hour; she was byloiUrs given to us, and I had half. Dr the stand when came. knew her to Hooper asked me if I could have come have written letters prior to the Thomp-j.ooner jf jhe weather had been favora son camp-meeting, and that two of them-,c, an, s.,jd could, were directed to Bristol, never had 6g George Duval. I live at Fall Rimysclf, nor ever knew any other person! vpr atij olU Sv) ((, October last. Air. to have ;:ii illicit intercourse w ith tlie Sii i;k lives on the same bhuk. Elder
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deceased. Na-'cy BidzifJL s the wife of the. Rev. Mr. Bidwell of Fall River. On he Siturday night of the camp meeting Mr. Avery slept at our house he came in at about half past nine, which is rather later that it is usual for ministers to return, went to Mr. Green's and ns ed him if he had seen Mr. Ave
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who put in the letter to be him. Sarah. has put its thousand to .death. Let none
Maria Cornell frequently called for let- therefore he afraid. This epidemic hag ters, and expressed great anxiety to heretofore, been so characterized by parreceive one, which she omeiirries did. tiahlies in its selection and eccentne-ties I don't know lo whom the letter mail- in its career, that all calculation as to the 12th November was addressed. I time, place and distance, seems to huve don't remember to have ever heard been deGed. It may come with the deMr. Avery preach. vastatinn of a ftorm, mid challenge, the Cross-examined MY. Avery was first whirlwind in iu rapidity and flight, or pointed out to me during the last sum- j with a mitigated violence, locate itself
mer; 1 lrequently saw him with the Rev. Mr. Bidwell and Bartlelt, the stage driver (No. 49) I saw him and knew him before the month of November; he used frequently lo go up to the
stables opposite the office and stand conversing, and I had seen him pass the office four or five times before Novem
ber, so that his countenance was quite familiar to me. I have resided in Fall River three or four years, and have been oonnecled with the Postoflice two or three. I confined there until sometime in January last. In the months of October and November the Postmaster was sick six or eight weeks; I had the
charge of the office during that time, and was there every day. I had known Sarah Maria Cornell three or four weeks or more or less; I had seen her more
than tw ice or thrice at the office for letters. I can't say Mr. Avery put that
identical letter into the box; hut I saw
him pass and drop one in, and 1 believe it was the same afternoon that I gave the deceased her letter. I believe there was no other letter in the box at the time I took this one out, and it was
delivered to Sarah Maria Cornell. I don't more particularly recollect the dress ofthc person who put the letter in than that his clothes were of a dark
color, and had on a black hat with rather a broad brim. I heard the letter fall
in and took it out immediately. I was
at the Bristol Examination a part of a
day, but not as a witness. I first mentioned these facts to-day to Mr. Staples
since the adjournment of the Court;
that is, I have not mentioned them particularly. 1 took no pains to conceal
them, for 1 was not aware they were
of importance to the case. I don't re
member to have been asked about them
except by the Postmaster, to whom I stated I had delivered letters to Sarah
Maria Cornell, and had seen Mr. Avery put one in the box which I supposed I had delivered to her the same ufter-
I did not answer him more par-
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.wcry prencneu ai my uoue on uie evouiug of the four das Fall River meeting. I understood it was Elder Avery who preached, but I never heard
him preach before, and 1 am not ct i lain whether it was he. Cross examined. I do not know ai what time ttie met ting began, but it ended between eight and nine; per
vd he had last seen him going;haps eH,pier. I am not certain wl.eth
street. When Mr. Avery came L h(, p,..;u hed or 'improved," for I do ,d he had been up to Mr. War- no, ,t.roCct whether '.e took a ti X o'r tiile.which made him so late; it,,wl. By "improved," I mean exhor-
r-i !ifti i l -.trocd r ;e r-me .oriie ,fr PYiiounded.
Graudall liawson, (iNo. 63) recalled. I know the hand wiiling ol Saioli M. Cornell, the deceased; this note in pencil produced I believe to be in her hand writing, but I cannot say positively.
Cross examined. I think I saw her
write during her stay at my house last -u;nmer, but I will not say it Was with ,,i pen. I correct mjself, I did Bee her
.1 ' . 1 1 .. i .. .-il- n. I i iion fin ft rkiTri a m a. i v
saw a strang- r .n "ie iorenoon oi inai wm i. muojuno day pass oar house who was like Mr. my shop; she wrote the words 'waist,'
Avery, had some conversation wnn, -uict'i oc im-"
stable i the
! d 'this watch a!. J said it ws half 1. . . . oYbu.k.
C- , - -?;i?'fir7. Warro-'s vr - i a; - posite direction
pht . .1 nn . 'nT,g u om our hou-o. Mr. to':! said !,e tliought it likely some i ! i wited Mr. Avery home. The I t: '.? vas cloudy.
Sarah J!. Jow ?. I resided at Ports-
mout on the 'J December last.
im in his hou-e at Bri-frl, on the sub
bed; he asked me about the appearance ot the man, and the di.ection he took. : lie told me not to repeal in court that
i t.i
s'ires. I nave several orner limes seen
her with pen and paper, when I supposed she was writing. The words I have mentioned were written oa car-
I shall be fully authorized to do, unlens he shalf prove that he did not know them at the time. Chief Justice. I so stated to the ju
ry, hiiJ t said that the other letter
would go to them only as evidence to
repel the suspicion of suicide.
Attorney General. But if it please the couil, I fhall claim the right to offer the other letters as evidence beyond the mere question of suicide, so far as any proof has been adduced to cootie.;? them. with (he prisoner in any otbr way. Chuf Justice. So far as there is any evidt ncc-io show that the prisoner is connected with the other letters, we are of opinion that the Attorney General cannot be pi evented from com
dUM.tiiig upon them. Recess till 3. Raj ns H. Lrs'-re- I now reside in Providence; in November and Decern ber last.. I resided at Fall River, and was cleik in the. postolfice there. I know the postoffice back produced. This entry on the I2'h November is in my hand w filing. There was but one letter maied from Fall River to Bristol on that day. The entry on the
1 9th Nov. u in Mr. Darling's No. 3,)
handwriting. I was in the omce in the month of December, and delivered to, Sarah Maria Cornell a letter wilh one cent postage on it. I never delivered to her but one letter. 1 am
not positive who the person was that dropped it in, but it was dropped in bv a .person who was called Mr. Avery. The prisoner appears to be the same
person, though he is now somewhat al-J
tered . . I am quite sure I saw the man
who is generally called Mr. Avery; he did not come into the office, Wut I was in it when he passed nlong by tbe box
and dropped it in; this was between 9
and 10 o clock io the morning. I be
noon.
ticularly because I was not positive,
and was not aware that the letters could
be traced. I used generally to take
out the letters as they came in, or look at them. I am quite certain I 6aw the
person known by the name of VJr. Avery put something into the box.
The Counsel lor the iTovernment
here rested their case, until the period
for the introduction of rebutting testimony, and :Mr. Randolph opened the
defence. to be continued. Lorenzo Dow was to have spoken iu the Town House, yesterday, at 4 o'clock but since the notice was given thai he was to preach, a vote of the Common Council, has closed the hall against all religious meetings. After informing those w ho had assembled of tbe fact, he came into the oflice of this journal, and during his stay, the side and square below exhibited quite a concourse of people, among whom were many well dressed females. Lorenzo has his unual keeness of expression, and oddity of appearance. His hair ii long, and of a 'sable silver1 hi beard, w hirh flows to his breast, is white, and his whole demeanar is quite patri.
archial. In private conversation he is
unassuming and racy, and exhibits strong good sense. No man, doubtle, in the Union, has sepn so much of it, or is so familiar, from peronal observation, with every portion of the republic. Provi dence R. J. Journal.
among us, and like a Monarch throw its own li?ery over the di-eases of the country throughout the seaon,or even longer. By way of preventive, let nil fruit and berries of e ery description be scrupu. lously abstained from, and the use of vegetables be dispensed with entirely the Irifh potatoe and rice only used hs such, with meat, milk, cof.ee, lea, bread $-c. as usual. Flannel or cotton should be worn next the skin, and all exposure to Ihe night air, be ftnctly guarded against, whilst no excesses in eating or drinking should be committed, because of a sudden und violent change in the general course of li?ing. Habit is too omnipotent io its pre. rogative. to be kicked aside with impunity then, let thoe who drink, drink on still, but with iuore moderation, but those that drink not, must neither taste tor
handle alchobol. Diarrhoea is so prominent and general a forerunner and symptom of the complaint, that it may be said, always to precede the cholera, from a lew hours to several d ays. We do not ay every bowel affection must necessarily end in cholera, but we do 6ay every euch irregularity is dangerous, and should be looked oo as premonitory, and they who have if, are subject to ihe thecae in its worst form at any moment, from the slighest indiscretion in diet or exposure. Thea never let a trifling loosentu of the bowels be neglected for one hour, none who do so are safe, however well they may feel in other respects, they are only jeopardizing their liven, by permitting an insidious foe to enter and occupy every avenue, till he i intrenched so trongly) that no means are found poient enough to expel him, and the patient finds bimtelf, when too late, a Victim to the mot ferocious symptoms and the sacrifice of bis own imbecility and hsllessness. The cure is simple aad speedy, if met at the very threshold, but not to be fooled wilh or managed easily, if suffered to enthrone itself. The rice water discharge is always attendant on the disease in some stage, but the ejections at first ate generally of a light yellow or brow n color, which may prtvs immedirttely into the rice water, or that of a grevi-h or palely colored substance, and finally to a fluid transparent as crystal this latter in the worst foims of the di-ease, may be so copious as to run iu streams through the bed and bedclothes The first symptom will cene.
- o rally be n slight loo-eness of the bowel?,
or twisting and cramp itbout the stomach
or some part of the abdnmeo, or both
these may be together, with or without
some nausea id this case let the oatient
take from ten to twenty drop of tbe cam
phorated alcohol, in a spoonful of water, keepu.g hunielf to the house and confining himself exclusively to rice water or
corn meal gruel for diet if the pkin be dry, drink freely of warm balm or s-ge
tea, and it the feet or skin incline to be
cold, dry heat should be applied while
the patient is in bed to induce perspira
tion. ftl.D.
On the 28lh of May, the steamboat
Forester was destroyed by fire on her way up the Cumberland River, a few
miles below CUrksville, Tennessee. It
originated in the cooking apartment, and
was not discovered until it whs too late
to chtck the progress of the flames, the
cargo consisted of suit, the greater part
of which was consumed : the entire loss is
not expected lo be heavy, as the boat was
of a very inferior kind.
The executors of the will of Stephen
Girard have filed their accounts in the
proper office. They claim, on
$2 777.5566 66, 2 per cent. G9.446.83
Ou 1,886,756 15,5 do. 94,337 80
163.7844 8 Balance io ihe hands of the executors,
to be paid to the city, $176,451 40.
General Washington wr9 born on a
plantation called Wakefield, now the
property of John Gray, Lsq, of Tr.iv-
eller's Rest, lying on Pope's Creek, in
V estmoreland county, V a. The house
in which he first saw light, was three
hundred yards hom the creek, half a mile from its entrance into the Potomac. The mansion has long since fallen into ruins. Some of the trees "of olden days," are yet standing around it. There is nothing there at present to interest, except the recollections that must crowd upon the mind, while contemplating the hirth-place of Washington. Mail Robbery. Joseph Jones has been sentenced in the United States' District Court for Kentucky, to confinement of twelve years in the the peritltentiary of that State, lor robbing the mail. Private letters received at Charleston from New Orleans give the most Irorrible accounts of the ravages of the epidemic among the negroes on the
luuMiaiiuiis in uihi vicinity, un one plantation, it is said, there had been upwards of one hundred deaths. The Baton Rouge Gazette, of Mar 25, stales that in fifteen days, there weie about 20 deaths, black and white. The New York Gazette states that ti
Dinner Party is made up in Philadelphia
New York.--A New York paper says, within that State consaining a popula-
tion over two millions, there has not for the 4th of July, to which a number
u.. . t ...u.uc, or om- ot gentlemen from New York are invier capital offence, the pas year Her ted; they lcavo there at six in the mormihtia amounts to one hundred and ning, dine at two, and shu t at three fiv eighty-eight thousand men. 1 cr sc hoi- j New York to i supper accompanied by ars ,n common chools, to 41)1,989- thf. Rentl,mxu who give the dinner iu nearly half a million. I Philadelphia.