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December 27,1856.] THE LEADEB, 1227
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THE MURDER OF MR. LITTKE. The Dublin pol...
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IRELAND. The Run for Gold.—The run on th...
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AMERICA. Tnn most exciting intelligence ...
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to be peculiarly England's province , and the West America ' s . " When he heard the possibility of a war between the two countries , the idea appeared to him to be so unnatural that he found himself repeating , with the alteration of a few words , an old nursery rhyme , as familiar on their side of the Atlantic as on this , and it might not be Inappropriate , on the present occasion , to mention them : —r-Let dogs delight to bark and Lite , For God hath made them so : Let Turks and Russians growl and fight , For'tis their nature to . But Anglo-Saxons should not let Their angry passions rise ; Their great big hands were never made To tear each others' eyes .
( Cheers and laughter . } He ( Mr . Crosskey ) recommended both English and American mothers to adopt this-version in teaching their children . " After the delivery of several other speeches , and the drinking of various toasts , the company separated about midnight ;
December 27,1856.] The Leadeb, 1227
December 27 , 1856 . ] THE LEADEB , 1227
The Murder Of Mr. Littke. The Dublin Pol...
THE MURDER OF MR . LITTKE . The Dublin police have at length arrested a man , and placed him before a magistrate , on suspicion of being the murderer of Mr . Little . The man ' s name is Michael George Harrington , living in Wellington-street , Dublin ; and the chief witnesses against him were a Mrs . Feeney , to whose house Harrington went on the night of the murder , and Eliza Fitzsimons , Mrs . Feeney's servant , a woman who had formerly lived in the service of Harrington . The evidence of Mrs . Feeney embodies the chief facts -which were brought forth last Saturday . She said :-
—"I have known Mr . Harrington five or six years . I saw Mm last Tuesday ( the 1 Cth inst . ) , and " that day ¦ we ek , between ten and eleven o ' clock in the morning , in Bow-street . " . About five or six or' more weeks ago , he came to my room about twelve o ' clock at night . He Was seemingly feeble , and sat down on the side of the bed . The girl Fitzsirrions arid my child came up the stairs with him . After he had sat down on the bed , he asked for a drink of water . The child handed it to him . He took a black bottle but of his pocket and poured some whisky front it into the water . The bottle had a green label . Tie said he was greatly put about with an attack of his nerves . I saw his left hand with blood on the back of it and through the fingers . There was also
blood on his cheeks , but more on the left than on the r ight cheek . Across his chin there was likewise blood . He asked for more water , and said lie wanted to wash his lmuds . lie got the water , and pulled a handkerchief from his breast , put it into the basin , and then washed his hands . I handed him a towel . He bade me take the candle off the table . When I had done so , he put hia foot upon the leaf of the table , and with the towel which I had given him lie rubbed down the front of his clothes , dipping the towel in the cup of spirit and water . He wiped his coat , trousers , leggings , and shoes . Before he got the water to .-wash himself , I remarked the blood , and asked him how he came to bo so bloody . He replied that he had been in a riot , that he went to make peace , ¦
and got the worst of it . I told him I thought he was with an unfortunate woman whom he kept , a big woman named Whclau , and that she had attacked him but he said no , he did not know anything about her ; that it was not very far away where he got it . Ho said he thought they were some of the blackguards from Cannock ' s who were lighting . He asked me then to go as far as the aqueduct to his son John's lodgings , to sec if he was in . I said he had often been there , that I had nothing to put about me at that late hour of the night , and that he might go by himself . He said he did not wish to go about the place , as an awful occurrence had taken place , and that a man was killed . He said he was greatly put about by hearing this , and
that he did not wish to go up there . Ho took oil" his two coats , a short black one and the outside coat which ho now Avenrs . He said there was paint on the back of one of them , and asked mo to take it oil' for him ; he aaked me to give it n touch over altogether—any place where I might see it dirty . At the time he asked . me to go to hia son ' s lodgings , he snid that perhaps Feeney would not bo pleased ; and X said whether ho would or not I would not go . I saw a stick with him , with a small weapon like a dagger in it . Ho Avipedthis on the towel . He put on his coat and walked down stairs , but
camo back again , took more water , and said ho was greatly put about in hia nerves . I Io afterwards left for tho night . On Friday , the day following , he came agtiin for his coat , and took it away . I found blood on tho back , tho Bide body , and the ' breast . I told him that thcro was no paint except a little white paint on the coat , which 1 could not got oil ' , as I had no turpentine , and that tho remaining spots were- blood . Ho told mo that ho had a coat for repair by Fueney ; but 1 said that wo hail constant work , ami could not mko it from him . "
The object of the crosa-oxaniinntioii of Mvh . Fecnoy , Of Kl ' uu Kit / . simons , and of anolhor wiluomh , n ; une < l . Taylor ( who merely reported poiuo conver-MMtions ho hud hod with the two women about tho nlVair ) , was to show * hat Mrs . Feoncy luul once hud a quarrel with
Harrington ; that Fitzsimons had been accused by him , when she was his gervant , of stealing some shirts , in consequence of which he detained a part of her wages , and was summoned by her ; that there was a dishonest collusion between the two women , partly in order that they might be revenged on the accused ; and that they did not say anything about their suspicions until they-were induced , to do so by the public offer of a reward for the apprehension of the murderer , of which they were informed by Taylor . They both , however , vehemently denied that the reward had any influence over them . he
Harrington was remanded till Tuesday ^ when was again brought up , and a servant woman named O'Halloran deposed that he had not been , from his home later than half-past nine o'clock on any night since the last week of October . The magistrate said that , independently of this testimony , he had no hesitation in saying that , upon the information received on Saturday , there was no case whatever against Harrington . He was then discharged .
Ireland. The Run For Gold.—The Run On Th...
IRELAND . The Run for Gold . —The run on the branches of the National Bank in the South of Ireland has partly subsided ; the panic being in some measure allayed by the arrival last Saturday at the offices of the bank of 200 , O 00 J . in sovereigns from London . Previously to this , however , all demands for gold had been instantaneously met ; and this contributed not a little to show the groundlessness of the depositors'fears . It is said that , on the 22 nd of last November , the Irish banks had a surplus of gold and bullion , beyond the amount required by their fixed issues , of 1 , 481 , 8687 . The Incojie-tax . —A special meeting of the corporation -was fixed for Friday -vyeek with a view of discussing the propriety of petitioning the Legislature for the abolition of . the . ' war 9 d . But the council would not assemble in sufficient numbers , the attendance , indeed , being so scanty that a motion for adjournment was at once agreed to . The adjourned meeting was successfully held on Wednesday . Encumbered Estates Court ;—Properties situate in the counties of Cork , Dublin , Cavan , and Meath were put up for sale on Friday week , and disposed of at the current market rates of purchase . The gross amount realized was the largest in any one day during the present term—namely , 85 , 520 k
Joiix Sadleir Agaist . —In the office of the Master in Chancery , on Saturday , counsel on behalf of Mr . Thomas Eyre , of Bath , applied to the Master to receive proof of a bill of exchange for 17 , 0007 ., dated Nov . 26 , 1855 , which was drawn by the late John Sadleir , accepted by the manager of the Glonmel branch of the Tipperury Bank , and endorsed by John Sadleir to Mr . Eyre . The Master said that for the present he should only receive the document as exhibited to him . It was a monstrous thing that this bill of exchange should have been accepted by the manager in November , 1855 , shortly before the failure of the bank , for so large a sum as 17 , 000 ? ., when he knew perfectly well that John Sadleir at . that time owed the bank 200 , 0007 . or 250 , 0007 . In his opinion , he ought to be indicted for fraud .
Attempted Assassination : —Mr . Galbraith Joynt , a gentleman who holds landed property at Mount St . Catherine , in the county of Clare , which he reeently purchased in the Encumbered Estates Court , was shot at a few evenings ago from behind a hedge , as he was returning home in his gig . He was severely wounded in the fleshy part of one of his legs and feet , but is not considered in a dangerous state . The reason assigned for the act is that Mr . Joynt had served notices of ejectment upon several tenants who are to be dispossessed in March .
Reterse of Fortune . —Mr . Francis Dwyer , the assistant secretary of the Repeal Association , and for some years private secretary to the late Mr , O'Connell , is now an applicant for admission into a Dublin workhouse . His father filled the post of secretary to the Catholic Association up to the passing of tho Kelief Act of 1829 , and had been previously one of the leading merchants in the city of Cork . Tirrc Dublin Rail-wait Frauds . —A commission undor the Great Seal has been issued to Mr . Henry O'llara and Mr , Francis William Brady , commissioners , to ascertain what property James Montgomery Knighting , late chief clerk in tho transfer office of the Great Southern and Western Railway Conipnivy , was possessed of at the time of his conviction for felony , which has become forfeited to the Crown . Tho commission
will open on Tuesday , the 30 th inst ., at eleven o clock , and tho shcritV of the city of Dublin has boon required to summon a j ury to aid the commissioners in the inquiry . ,
America. Tnn Most Exciting Intelligence ...
AMERICA . Tnn most exciting intelligence from tho United States this week lias referenco to a projected insurrection among the slaves in various parts of Tennessee Twentyfour mutfkot * and two kegs of powdor have been found in tho possession of a gang of negroes at Columbia . ' At l ' erry , fifteen lU'grocs liavc been killed by their owners , There has been much excitement in the neighbourhood of Dover , on tlin'CtmiL >< M'hin < l river , among tlie negroes . Many of the ringleaders have boon arrested , nnd eleven hunu-. One -white man , " disguised as ft negro , " has
been , sentenced to nine hundred lashes , but he died before the penalty was fully inflicted . The whites are arming and organizing for defence . An opinion prevails that a general uprising will take place among the negroes during the holidays . Escapes of slaves have been unusually numerous . Four or five white menit is said , upon mere suspicion—have been put to ignominious deaths . The conspiracy is believed to extend through six or seven states . Large bodies of slaveholders are patrolling the south-western parts of the United States , to intercept negro communication by night , and a rigorous system of police has been esta-Dlished . .
The Governor of Iowa , alluding , in his annual Message , to the outrages against former citizens of that state , committed by disorderly persons in Kansas , has announced that in his opinion it is the duty of the state to protect her children who may have emigrated , when the Federal Government is unable to do so . Mr . Whitfield , the pro-slavery delegate from Kansas , has been admitted into the House of Representatives by a narrow majority of four . The Special Committee of the South Carolina Legislature had reported and asked leave to sit during the recess , and report at the next session on the Governor's recommendation to reopen the slave trade . The persons arraigned before the United States District Court on a charge of fitting out the Pancketa as a slaver have been , acquitted .
^ Resolutions have been , introduced in the South Carolina Legislature deprecating the continual agitation of the abstract theories relative to the slave trade and other matters , as dividing and distracting the state , and alienating from her the support and sympathies of other states . The Southern convention has met in the city of Savannah , Georgia , to consult on such measures as would best promote the prosperity of the South . The number of d-elegates to the convention was very large . The Washington correspondent of the Neio York Herald announces that a new British treaty has just ' been concluded by Mr . Dallas , and that it will shortly be laid before the Senate for confirmation . That journal characterizes it as one of the most important documents that
have lately seen the light , and states that it has every reason to believe that this new treaty , while affirming the old principle of the Clayton-Bulwer Convention ^ - namely , that neither the United States nor England desire to colonize or fortify for their exclusive benefit any part of the territory on the isthmus or in Central America—contemplates a much larger field of operations than that memorable treaty . It has reference , the writer understands , to Cuba and the Spanish possessions , as well as Central America , and its object is the consolidation of the present political condition of these colonies , islands , and states , with a view to the general pacification of that part of the world and the extension of trade 5 that it is , in fact , a commercial and conservative treaty The writer conceives that , if the United States depart from their past policy in guaranteeing Cuba to Spain
they do so in . return for a grant of commercial privileges so extensive that iri a commercial point of view even annexation could give them nothing more . He says it may safely be assumed that the Reciprocity Treaty with Canada has served the , framers of this new treaty as a guide , and in some respects a model ; and , as the Provincial Legislature of Canada was a party to that , by the act giving force to the royal treaty , so , no doubt , the Government of Spain is a party to this , and stipulates gratefully for the changes by which she is by far the greatest gainer . He gives Mr . Marcy credit for \"« scheme , and adds that a treaty guaranteeing Cuba * « 6 Spain before Mr . Buchanan's Administration would deprive that gentleman of his most promising chance of glorification , and would clear the way , in 1860 , of manyobnoxious rivals .
Mr . A . P . Cook has arrived at Washington from Arizona , tho new territory formed out of the Gadsden purchase from Mexico . He had with him his credentials , and claimed a seat in the House as delegate from that territory . He reported tho population of Arizona at from 10 , 000 to 15 , 000 persons , and stated that the territory would runko a stato about as large as Pennsylvania . The President has announced his determination to recal Judge Lecompte . Tho Judge ' s successor was not appointed at the last dates . Mr . Henry George Kuper , British Consul at Baltimore , has been suffocated whilst in a house iu the eastern part of the city , which was burnt . Tho other inmates narrowly escaped . Mr . Kupor lias a family in England .
Mr . Jacob Little , the largest operator at tho New York Stock Board , lias failed ; but he has been able to propose a satisfactory compromise . According to some reports , ho had speculative sales open to the extent of nearly two millions . sterling , principally in railway stock ; but tho hiHt advices from England reported an improvement in the money market ; this caused a general advance in quotations , nnd Mr . Little was compelled at once to declare his inability to meet his engagements . lie offered , however , to fiillil bin contracts nt tho prices of tho previous day ; mid this proposal ifl likely to bo accepted , lie lin . s failed twice before ( I ho hist timo in 18 f ) : $ ); but on both occasions ho lias ultimately paid in full . Another stoppage has occurred nt Boston—that of llenahaw and Son , bunkers and . stuck dealers , also with very heavy liabilities . —In tho New York money market
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 27, 1856, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27121856/page/3/
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