Weekly Messenger, Volume 5, Number 228, Vevay, Switzerland County, 14 May 1836 — Page 2

Mn:tt. In tltis ciijs on'lhc 3Ut ulu by

the rev. mr. BLu-fr, mf. r ctcr Smith, fo miss l'h-.i?be Cavers the daughter of mr. James Cavers, h'I of this city. The above announcement appeared in our column of vcierJ;sv, and we have (his dav to record the untimely death of those two ...- Ulvi. la.il?, so lately made one through life, and xvhose fate it was to be undivided i death. On the morning of the first of .nril, thev left this city in a cariole, aky.g vrtth the father of the bride, but whether for their home or on a pleasure trip, we do not know. When at the mouth of the Chateauguay river, the father was in the leading cariole, and at a certain place ne of his horse's feet went through the ice. S soon as he passed over the spot, he rjrned round to warn his daughter and soninlnv of the circumstance, when he saw them suiic through the ice to rise no more. His feelings may be imagined they cannot be described. JWjtit. Herald. Murder. A strong sensation was produc ed in the city yesterday, by the discovery, of the body ot a murdered man in W heeling creek, near the bridge, in the eastern suburbs. His name was Jesse Chrisman formerly of Wilks:arre. Pennsylvania, but laterly of Illinois, where he has left a wife and seven children. He " was a nvichanist, and spent the last wn!cr in selling clover machines in Ohio, as the agent of Messrs. Fluke fc Co. of Pitts lurg. He arrived here on Saturday, suppoS' ed to have some money withhim,and on Mon day sold a norse and cariole for .105. On that evening he was asked to walk nut by two in mj whom he fell in with at his lodgings, and complying with their request, was inhumanly m irdeivd in his absence. The two men, with two others, were arrested as soon as the murder whs discovered, and the examination in reference thereto, held privately yestetday afternoon. Of what then transpired we are ignorant . Fi sy rmrning.Fitrlh-rr particulars. Confes sion. We staled on Wednesday that lour men had been apprehended on suspicion. One of them, named Bojn Long, this morning made the following confession, in substance. He says that on Monday afternoon his accomplice, Th mus Win t ringer, told him that Chrisman h id a pile of money, and that he would get it; to which the other replied, with an oath, thai "he wo ild knock him to hell." He adced Long to join him, and share the money, to which lie seemingly assented. At night Wintringer took Chrism in to the theatre, and after the play was out, Lone joined them at the corner of Main and Monroe streets. It was now half past ten o'clock. Wintringer proposed that they should go to a house of ill lame in East Wheeling, which was agreed to. After getting apparently beyond the suburbs, and near the creek, Chrisman asked, "where is the house?"' These were the lat words he Sp ;ke. In reply, Wintringer struck him with a brick he had in his hand, and felled hrn; then jumped on his body, and ga.ve him two tn ire Mows, which despatched him. Wintringer rifled Lis pockets of his money and watch, handing the former to Long, and then dragtied him to the creek and threw him in. The amount of money was only 124 dollars. The natch was in the possession of Wintringer 'vlu n he was apprehended, and was dropped by him unobserved while on his way to jail. This is the substance of Long's confession, uj)on thestrength of which, with other conoborating evidence, the coroners inquest have returned a verdict of murder against both. Wheeling Gaz. A convicted murder buried rvilh military honors. That there is a growing disposition among the people of this country, to exercise a most morbid sympathy for malefactors, we have long been convinced. There is, in the liM place, a false philanthrophy abroad in the land, which professes to feel conscientious misgivings as to the propriety of "taking the life of a human bein'' for even the m; st atrocious crimes; and, in the next place, another large portion of our people, who perhaps, would liardlv do away with the law which inflicts capital punishment, but who aie ready, the moment that a murderer pays me loriciiare 01 liicrimes,to sanctify hi. memory. They would acknowledge, probably, that he wa justly punished, but every pains is taken to convince the culprit himelf. as well as all others, that he li ad become "a saint in heaven," the instant that the halter had made one rogue less on earth. The scalFold, according to these people, is the very stepping stone to glory, and a felon's expiation of guilt upon the gallows, is a matter that is to be "improved" (or the editi1 . 1 -. r f those he has left behind. No mat ter what may have been the amount of his tur tMindi- no matter how heinous may have been the nartirular offence for which he suffered; he merely "fell a victim to the rigor of our laws -...! iK rn.nn m sentimentality sure to follow guilt to its grave, has actually taken m 1 f . 1 n:u me. terrors from the consequences that fall on those who have made up their mind to commit a crime! Every villain knows that he is sure f scores of svmpathiszing friends, if he is detected; ar.d if he can get off clear, 0 much the better for him. If he escapes, he makes a thrifty business of his wickedness; if he is punished, he becomes conspicuous; and :s, morever made a martyr and a saint! His good qualites are recorded, and his bad ones srlossed over and ana forgotten. The court of Justice which convicts him is little less an objec t of horror with the philanthropists, than thr hanirman who fixes the rope about his i-rk. for a sum of money. Hi fate is pitied; u... - that of th Trj victim of his

jalrocilj is tared very little for. Nay, nine

times in ten. that victim becomes the theme o( the ilcst and most unfeeling posthumous calumny. There is no extravagance in these remarks. They are warranted by the actual j history of the last twenty years. Every part ol our country has been disgraced uy tnese scenes. The moral elements of our society have, been poisoned bv the practices of a can ting pretension to sublimated philosophy; ar.d there is really some danger, that ere long, crime will become the readiest road to the good opinion of our cotemporaries. A scene of recent occurrence in Louisiana, has impressed these considerations upon us with more freshness and more force than any thing of the kind that has ever yet taken placein this country. One Washington Whitaker, represented as a brawling brackling of the worst description, was sometime since convicted in New Orleans of one of the most unprovoked and atrocious murders that has ever been perpetrated inj the United States. He was wealthy, had i wealthy and influential friends, and every pos ible exertion was made tt rescue him from the consequences of the deed,- but after a fair , and patient trial a jury found him guilty, the court senteced him to death; and the governor of the stale had the firmness to resist the importunity to pardon him

The day of exe-'tor

cuuon was nxed, and YV mtaKer, to snun the . f , ..r. .. . - . .. ' ignominy ot the gallows, stabbed himselt to death with a knife. Now comes a scene such a3 we hope for the honor of the country, may never be enacted again, at least so long as we clam to be a civihzed nation. The body of the felon was ta-; ken to his mothe's plantation, the militia of the state is called out, a marMal procession!

formed, military music is provided and the ker village, in Watervliet, was sold in Troy jtap room of a tavern, when one of thein nambody carried to the Brave with all the honors for the handsome sum of thirty dollars. The fed Holland, proposed toanolher named Smith,'

that could have been bestowed upon a gencral officer who had fallen in glorious battle. .1 A volley wasnred over me grave, ana a maj. reneral Dronounced a labored euloeium upon

his character! The court that convicted him "agi one of which weighed IbS, and the othwas termed an "inquisition," the governor a- r 195 pounds, and which sold for 22 dollars bused in most unmeasured terms for refusing a piece. lb.

to pardon the culprit, and the people of New I

Orleans indiscriminately stigmatized in the' lht ulooe sat: "Ihe whole ol the ISeapogrossest language that calumny could muster ,llan and French indemnification money has

for its Dumoses. A meetinn- was organized on the spot in order to embody an "expression of the public opinion" and the proceedings Mgned by a president and secretary, and ordered to be published. This is unquestionably the grossest violation of every thing that is decent and decorous that ever occurred in this count ry and the citizens of New Orleans could, not receive a more emphatic compliment than is bestowed unnn tlipm hr hr of nrh n em. biace as Gathered around the erave of Washingtor Whitaker. New York Inq.

A choice family party. A girl named Eliza- protected against this loss. The Secretary, bcth Waggoner was tried in Cecil county, Md. however, does not feel himself authorized to a few dys since, lor the murder of her father; make the chan?e "as he understands the law, the principal witness against her being her or, as the president understands it forh.m.arid own brother, and the principal one for her, lLhus fiJe. m,,,l1on9 of do,,ars n gold, is to be her mother. The murder was committed in brouht 'nto h,e rC0'lnt7 government, the most shocking manner, the head being ga" the will of the rightful owners, and to severed from the body with an axe. The ju- damg at ,east three hundred thousand ry committed the prisoner on the ground of do,lar- An rnipt is now making, by one insanity, though there was no doubt of her or more of the agents, to have a section added having" perpetrated the deed. The trial ap- to some appropriate bill, pending before connears o have created the frencral impression ;gress gmnS ,olhe secretary the authority to

a have created the general impression ,5' 8mnS loine secretary inc aut.ioiity 10 : whole family were part:cipants in the protect the claimants under the Freixh treaty, , and each member anxious to get off from future unnecessary and injurious sacnivictinc one of the others. The mur-jficei in collecting their money. 1 may again

that the ' ..... . . . ' murder bv convicting dercss was immediately reeommitted to prison at the suggestion of the brother, who swore that his life was in danger, if she was left at 1 ' rrrA The tron mountain in Missouri. Tt appears by a report of congress, by mr. l eatherstonhough, that there "is actually a mountain of iron in Missouri, of very great dimensions, and capable of yielding more ore than will be wanted from this time to the end ol the nve hundreth century. In the emphatic and somewhat poetical language of the enthusiastic geologist, it is impossible to estimate its value "by any other terms than those adequate to all a nation's wants." This is a pretty broad as sertion to be sure, but wc feel no disposition to controvert its correctness. We recollect learing of a great deal of fun that was once poked at mr. Jefferson, (we deny being old enough to acknowledge it as contemporaneous history,) for his description ol a salt mountain bnt there is no mistake about the iron moun tain. It is a bonafide, and will be the making of Missouri; a state which, by the way, is a! ready rich in rcsourcesof all sorts especially in a "whole mountain of brass in the person of her senior member of the United States sen ate. OCrA man named John Haward, was con victed in Talbot county Georgia, a short time since, of the murder of his own biother. No other cause is mentioned for his most brutal and unnatural deed, than besotting drunken ness. A most ungallant premium. The Schenectady Reflector offers a premium of sixty dol lars for the two best tales, but annexes one of the rrost barbarous conditions that civilized literature ever dreamed of. There must b rmnl characters introduced. We are as tonished at such savagism as this, and we don'l know of any thing that compares with it, ex cept a practice that used to obtain among certimes mustered a three stringed fiddle for what in that region is technically termed a "frolic," in which the danced at lomc country tavern

durrng the whole night, without "gals," rs those savages used to call the blue-eyed dam

sels of I'iquay. These male junkettings were denominated "White Oakers, probably in al lusion to the skim-milk cheese bearing that title. The Schenectady man's prixe literature ought to be called skim-milk tales, sans cream, sans comlort, sans every thing. Jy. Y. Inq. A chance for Phrenology. A gentleman in Boston ha? a potato in his possession which is a perfect lusus natursc, according to the Mercantile Journal being .1 most correct resemblance of the human face, with a high forehead, a pair of eyes and Anglo-Greek and African nose, are those noses generally alike, mr. :Ucrcaniile7J with nostrils complete. This is a prodigy in our opinion; for though we have seen several physiognomies bearing a most inveterate resemblance to a potato, we never saw one of those respectable esculents that had such a "high forehead." It must ac cording to this inventory of its feautures, be an intellectual potato, and we commend it to the attention of the bumplogists. They will probably find the organ of roastiveness fully developed. lb. A negro fellow named Jacob Fountain, liv ing in Elkton, Md. sold his wife to a specula

a few days since. She was a free womanJon the vnvaee and was a Jrulv estimable vouner

ana measures were iaKen lmmeaiaieiy lor ner J . I J- . I 1- 1 restoration, wnicn was eneciea; out me racal himselt, had gone to "parts unknown." 'Really, these Maryland gentlemen of color "re getting to be almast as great barbarians the marketers of wives at Smithfield, in old England. lb. Shaker Ap. A sheep raised in the Sha .animal weighed two hundred and sixty-five , pounds certainly one ol the molt corpulent ! .1 ii... 1. . : ineep inai we ever neara 01 in inc country and there were two others from the same vil-, . .... Deen ordered home in gold. es,andtothc 6rcat mortification, loss and injustice of, and towards the claimants under the French treaV7 u,e -u OI reoruary me secretary 01 ilhe treasury instructed liaron Rothschild, ",,c" ,Hi receivea me instalments oue Dy rance, to ship the amount to lha United S. ,n &,a' heeuect ol mis oruer win or, loss to the claimants, of from five to seven per cent Thcir agents, or some of them, have objected to this procedure, and have used help belt efforts to induce the secretary to adopt a different course which they have sug gested, and by means of which they would be nrnl., notice thissubject; but shall wait to see wheth er this attempt will succeed. 1 doubt it. House of Ri present at ives. It has been said, that "time is money." If ibis be true membersof the house of representatives arc incur ring a heavy debt with their constituents, for they appear to keep no note of time but by its loss.'. The account ol daily proceedings present little more than a succession of motions to suspend rules, and to call the yeas and nays. The method of proceeding appears to be rad ically defective. Kulc6 seem to have been muilipled, until they have become so compli cated as to be unintelligible even to the speak er and hence arises a continual dispute as to meir interpret mon, with me accompai- ..... .... ... .. ments of appeals, yeas and nays, &c. &c. This kind of farce has occupied about onehalf of the session and the consequence is. as might have been anticipated, that the pub lic business has been grossly neglected, ami the session unnecessarily protracted. We pre dict that unless these things be corrected, tinlong sessions of congress will soon last until the short ones commence. ould it not be an improvement to limit the duration of all sessions of congress to a period not exceeding three months. It would tut short many along winded harangue, uttered and designed for home consumption. This, although perhaps, a grievance to members, would be a relief to their constituents who are bored almost to death with partizan speeches. Many mem bers give "all talk and no cider chatl chalt, without a single grain of wheat. We should like to see this practice reformed altogether. Bait. Chron. ' The surplus money in the deposite banks continues to increase. By the Intest returns, according to a report of the 6ccre?,-ry of the treasury to the senate, the am.;,unt in the aflib Ihted banksto the crcuit ol the treasurer of the United Statea was $33,29 1, 0'24, and the amount to the credit of public officera 3,177,--32 ; making a total amount of public money of thirty-six. million seven hundred and seventy-one thousand dollars in the deposite banks, subject to the absolute and uncontrolled pleas-

ure of the prerident of the United States as to the particular banks who shall enjoy the advantages of these deposites, the amount of which in some instances farexceedsthe whole capital of the bank. Is it possible that congress can think of adjourning and leaving things in this state? Nat. In.

The horrible mat f acre on board of the ship Awashonks. The particularsof this tragedy are chiefly confirmed by the Nantucket Inquirer, since received. It appears, however, that the massacre look place at Brinyard' or Bainani's Island, one of the Kingmill's group, and not at the rcgee Islands. 1 he Inquirer adds:; "The individuals who have thus fallen victims 10 in-- lerocny ana ireacncry ui muse ooum Sea demons were all native? of this town and have numerous near and dear relatives to lament this melancholy event. The commander, Prince Coffin, has left parents and an orphan child his wife and one child have died since the commencement of his voyage. The first officer, mr. Alexander Gardner, was a young man of high promise, son of Albert Gardnor. esq. to whose family this loss is irreparable, and the second officer Vm. Swain, was a son of capt. Swain, of ship Susan, of this p.rt now in Ihe Pacivic ocean he was married a short lime previous to his departure J. . . . . . - c man. The A washonks belongs to ralmouth and had G50 bbls of oil at the lime of the massacre. She will probably not pursue her voyage, but return, home forthwith." Extraordinary death. The following extraordinary death lately took place at the town of Studley, near Trowbridge England. A number ol men were sitting together in the to bet that he (Smith) could not carry him Holland) across the room on his shoulders. 'I'l. f . a e 111 1 nc lonner was not a man 01 reirarKanie weight, though Smith was of rather small r 1

, . . , ... ... The new street inspector escaped from an enIhe bet was accepted, with the certainty o (hc immH, mo(,n. of ;vinn,ng ,t with perfect ease. Wh plac-. . A rrnor J)ck drowned. Citied himself m a position to receive Holland on Jn rons(prn:tio retire in ships and boats

nis DacK,nuicui.ng me ansureiuy 01 uie oci on the part of the latter. They were the last words that he ever uttered. Holland placed himself on his back in this manner: passing his arms under the armpits of Smith from behind, he brought his hands together behind the neck of the latter, clasped them firmly to gether, and forcing Smith's head downward, till his chin was pressed violently upon his chest; he then raising his feel from the floor,

suspended his weight upon the shoulders of their children, if not enough for their entire the latter. Smith instantly fell dead beneath support, at least enough to set them well ahim. On a surgical examination, the neck float in life, is very common among parents.

was fright fulty dislocated, and the verctehial arteries. &c. larccrated. The coroner's jury that sat upon the body found a verdict of man-

slaughter against Holland, for the raffian bru- care of the-mscl ves, leach Ihem to depend uptality which, though there was no intention to on their irwn strength; and this can only be take life, he had displayed to win his bet. jdone by putting them upon their own strength

I nnd in no other way can they acquire strength The Louisville Journal on the authority of Setting a young man afloat upon the wealth a gentleman from Texas, gives an interesting accumulated by his fatVr. is like tying Madaccount of the manner in which San a Anna, ders under ihe arm of a swimmer or rather stormed the fortressof San Antoni , the tyrant one that cannot swim without them ten brought with him 1500 eonvicts from the Mux- chances tonne he will loose hW bladders, and iean prisons. On arriving at S.m Antonio, he: his sole depf-n lenee, :n l then where i he? placed the whole body of thorn as a forlorn Teach him while young to swim a little with hope in adance of ihe rest of the army, half his own .frength. --end then chuck him in'n the encompassing them in the re-ar with 3.300 in- stream of if.. to lake c ire of himself without fantrv at d placing still further in the icar anv extraneous helps. Under such circum2.'200 cavalry, with orders, that each convict, stances, he will be likely to buffet the waves

whoattempted to retreat, should be instantly shot or cut down. He then ordered the convicts to storm the fortress setting before them liberty and promotion if they sucecd. aud immediate death in the event of their failure. They rushed forward with the fury of devils, and, in less than an hour, every man in the garrison was mannered. The carnage among the convicts was deadful. Out of the lift ecu hundred, all but three or four hundred were either killed or mortally wounded. From the coast of Africa. Capt. M'Donand of the brig Elizabeth, from the coast of Africa and the (.'ape de Ve rds, states that on the eleventh December an insurrection broke out among the slaves (at the Cape dc Verds) who coinmitted great depredations, but were final ly put down, and Ihe rigleaders shot. Capt. M'Donald further states thtt the lrig Pearl, Capt. Blackmail, on her passage from Boston, to the Cape de Verds, was boarded by u Spanish Guineatnan and robbed of dry goods to the value of $1000. General Srssions. A protracted session of (his court was commenced yesterday before ihe Recorder and Alderman Labagh and Purdy, for the purpose of trying Henry l aulkucr aud twenty-five others (journeyman tailors) on the indictments found against them for conspi racy. Messrs. Westing, W luting and Brady, of counsel for the defendants; appeared in court, and expressed themselves willing to go on the trial, but Mr. Blunl, one for the prosecution (specially retained by the associatnt of master trulmV moved that the indU uv.esnU be tr;:lSitfretJ for Hdjudicatjan, to. the court of VJyer and 1 ermtner. on the around that manv options of law would arise durinc the trial ,l.;eli nW h licn..c,wl nfhv Imlire Kdwards, to the The opposing counsel did not oojoet the removal of ihe indictments, and . :.J. .. . they were therefore sent to the Oyer and Tcrminer. 1 here was no othe r business nciorc thocot'.rt, and it will be adjourned ienrncdiatcly after the Grand Jury shall close their invcstigiition in lM case of young Robinjon, charged with ihe nnirder of Ellen Jewett. .V York Jmr. f Qm.

tn the Ntm York Mirr. STREET CHRONOLOGY IN NLV YORK. March 1S36. City six inches under water. Rope ladders sold nt auction for crossing the st eels. Eight small children drowned in ffont or St. Paul's church, the poor little victims fell out of a sleigh. A large pig rut hi throat by attempting to swim from Wall street to Maiden Lane. A fat ge Dili man ell opposite Grate chuith, nnd Jid down the ice to the Battery, w here, the pate be irg unfortu

nately open, the struggling tulli-rer oiicie d through, and would have bee . - .miter pavement, had net his powerful impulse ( uoated Imwever. so that he ft II into the bay 'and saved himself on the ice. The street inspector, was obsf rved standing by a pile of ice and snow in Berk man street seventeen fi ot nine inches high, wiih two Mnall men, each armed with n pix-axr. geM It mm remarked that it reminded him of the Eiiplishn an who once subsri ibi d five pounds towards paying off Ihe tritif.tml debt of Grrat Britain. A pupil of Sam Patch jumped e,fl Trinity church steeple, and cane up unharmed. A ple asure yatch. sailing up Rector street, was carried down and out to sea. by the current. Mr. mith, the India-rubber over shoe mtrthont, retired from business with a fortune of seven millions sterling, and introduced gondolas. Street inspector lynched. Corporation resigned and retired to ihe Sandwich Islands. The large bridge across Chatham square commenced. Swimming taught in the colle ges inste ad of Greek. While caught on the platfoim in front of Ihe City-hnll. Sea-serpent thrust his head into Walter Rowne s bed-roe m. Child born web footf d. Governor Duck elected on account of ibis nppropiiate name. Mr. Astor resigned bis hotel, and invested his capital in boat building. Five bedsof oyster, discovered in the lower corid'-r f the Ci y-hail. Lobsters swam into Ihe garret window of a house ' A I . ..... 'I 1 .-ICS. t C ll.AA ' ' 1 f II in iiirrnnnin. iciiri"' ".iit-i. veekawk hriirhts. Second rudden rise of the waters. Judpc Swanton escaped in a Swanton escaped fishing smack cut of the City-hall cupola window. Shark swallowe d the spire of Trinity, churrh steeple. City of New York visited by a committee, in a diving bell!! SETTING OUT IN LIFE. The anxiety of accumulating something for It is injudicious and arises from paternal weakness. Educate your children well, and 3-011 have done enough for them: let them fake

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with far more success. Fro 'it the Nc ? Xork Mirror. A VERY SMALL PIECE. The affectation of the times! This phrase . a . so common at oinner-taoies, is i'ie rr-ost un meaning in the language, or rather it has a meaning almost diametrically opposite to its appare nt signirie-aiion. A man who has eaten nothing fr six hours, qnalittc-s his demand for turkey with "a very small pit cey' when in lact, he wishes "a very large piece," and before he leaves the table appropriates as much quadrupled to the appeasement of his appetite. The reader remembers an old anecdote of the lady who exclaimed; "Dear me sir! you have helped me to a cart load," when the carver presently perceiving that she had c leared ihe dish, be-gged leave to send her "another carf load!" To carvers we hint the true meaning of this phrase. "A very small piece," if applied to a turkey, means three slices of I he breft.. a wing, and two spoonfuls of the dressing, and a "little" of the gravy. There is no reason, to be ashamed of an appetite. It is one of the; most valuable gifts el nature. A little bcywho honors us some limes by becoming ihecompanion of our leisure lumrs, was the olhev day offered, at a friend's house, piece of CiUic, which he refused. After we had departed- h,e complained of hunger, and to our inquiry why he had declined the rake, repl'i? :, t V.UU, v;ui ted it very nvMfli. ' thought it lyrs'tWent to refii,sst" nowj U a. sort o( duplicity garh of a v'lrtie. He shaujd hae he.cn, taught not lo re fuse, hut to havii accepted wilh frankness, and have partV-eii without; excess. For. after all. where is toe sage, the. P'et, the philosopher, the student, he lover,, the bell.', ahoveall ihe Sift anu-ties ann, I . c ...... 1 1.. ., 1 .limwr. i"i"g aua i jus ui .1 i--."; fj i;,u h " " ,flj.?f foul. Mrs. Bristol, a j'hiing woma v only J years 0 l, was muiijeiod a slio! lime since at St. Antones do 7,il!l, about i2i miles from Quebec, by her husband! Shew; f very bcuqtiful and had heen m irried to tl -. : lqtc a,b,Qiit H months- h '(li: V toilhe lT. i I aJ a ' j' foV Ms '