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festation v Xynch , * , determined housebreaker , who waa only one -week out of gaol after a » imprisonment & t twelve months for * violent Wgbway robberyv interfered to rescue the prisoner ; In this- effort , however , he counted without his host , for Mr . Bernard also arrested him , and , in . spate- of . the most violent struggles , succeeded ia brining his two captives the entire length of Castle-street , where at length a policeman was found , and they were placed in the dock . —Cork Reporter . MuBDEEt IN Tepperabyv—Two families of the name of Stapleton , cousins , live close to each other at a place : called ( j urtnahoe , about eight miles from Tburies . Differences have arisen between them , with reference to some land ; and these have led to ' murder . On . Thursday week , says Sounders ' * JVews Letter T " Richard Stapleton
went with a cart and a scythe to cut some coarse grass at a place which adjoined the farm of Michael and John . Stipleton , and , while thus engaged , the other two men were seen moving towards the place with pitchforks in their hands . The father of the deceased met them , and , being alarmed at some indications , begged of them not to think of doing any harm . The reply to this was several stabs made at their uncle in the face , and the men pursued Richard Stapletoo , who made for a fort at -some distance , but he was overtaken , stabbed ia the back , and fell . While trying to gain his footing one of his cousins raised the scythe which had dropped on the
ground and made a desperate blow , which cut off the arm with which tbe wretched victim sought to avert the cut designed for his head . Not satisfied with inflicting other serious aad deadly wounds on Richard Staple ton , the assailant * then turned on his sister , and wkli the scythe cut the flesh off her arm from the shoulder to below the wrist . The most singular mattter connected with the wbftle proceeding is , that one of the two meii engaged in this awful transaction ; proceeded to a neighbouring magistrate to lodge an information that he and his brother were the parties attacked , one brother lying in bed as if unable to stir from the injuries lie received , " STRKjaT-PitttACHfise i » Belfast .- ^ -Some Protestant .
and Roman Catholic street-preachers at Belfast haye been bound over to keep the peace—that is to say , to withhold from their open-air exhortations . It is stated , however , that they intend to continue their usual course .
322 T E1/Lea D E B>. [No. .88 .8* Augtjh...
322 T E 1 / LEA D E B > . [ No . . 88 . 8 * Augtjht 29 , 1857 .
America. The Elections To Congress, &C, ...
AMERICA . The elections to Congress , & c , are now occupying the attention of tbe Americans . The New York Herald thus describes the reaults , as far as they were known tothe writer : " Incomplete- returns received at Nashville seem to indicate the election to Congress of seven of eight Democratic members in Tennessee . The election of Zollicoffer and Ready id certain . The majority of Harris for Governor will exceed 10 , 000 . Both branches of the new Legislature will be Democratic . Ia Missouri , fifty counties have been heard from , which give Major
Rollins for Governor a majority of 47 21 . In Kentucky , the election in the third Congressional district is still undetermined . In the fourth , Mr . Talbot , Democrat , ia ejected . Returns from twenty-six counties in Iowa give a majority of about 3000 in favour of the new constitution , which will be probably increased by those to be heard from . ' * Later despatches from Missouri report that , in ninety-five counties of that state , Rollins , the Abolition candidate for Governor , had 300 majority , and it was believed , ho was elected by 1500 majority . The Congressional election in Nebraska has resulted in thochoico of one of the several Democratic candidates
by a small majority . -UiBidgo Davidson bus decided against Mrs . Cunning--liavm , and committed her ; but tho Supreme Court of \ Sfew York has granted a writ of certiorari on the application of the defendant . Governor "Walker evacuated Lawrence on tho 3 rd inst ., with all tho United States tvoops except 40 . The attack oh Fort Roilly by tho Indians was said to be the pretext for the measure . Subsequently , however , he returned with tho troops . The constitution , of Topeka has been adop ted , at , Lawrence by G 52 votes , ugainat . 2 . The Frea-Taoil party have triumphed over their opponents ia the election of minor , officers . From Mexico we hoar of thq unanimous De-election of Comonfort to tU © Presidentship . _ _
According to tne Washington correspondent of tho New York Tribune , Lord Napioc has informally sounded tho Administration with , regard to tho renppointment of Consul Barclay . A letter hom the late Vi « e ~ Oonaul Schedel hoe been filed , which goes to show that there waa false testimony ab to Mr . Barclay ' s participation in tho recruiting business . The United States Government is said to have replied that It could not tako the initiative in restoring Mr . Barclay to the position which ho had The Harris Cotton Factory , on tho La Ohino Canal , Montreal , has been fired by ftu incendiary and totally destroyed , Another French war steamer ia on shore on the Labrador coaafc . Tho man-pf-wftc previously on shore U a total wreck . A horrible story of Lynch-law ia reported in , the American papers . A . man , named Stephona , belonging to tho city of KanasMv "went one day to Leavenworfcu , and drank deeply at » publio-houso kept by ono Bttineo , Th «
landlord appealed- * o encourage him hi War potations , and finally , when , he was v « ry intoxicated , pEoposed a walk np the Mhsotmi river . They went , and were assaulted by two naea who demanded their money or their lives . Baines yielded up his money , and then ran to the town and gave the alarm . Several citizens went to the spot , and found Stephens erawling out of the river , his person covered with wounds and braises . Almost immediately afterwards , he died , without being able to utter a word . Suspicion at oace attached to Baines , and he was arrested by a posse of the citizens . It was then agreed that he should be hung en the spot without judge or jury . A rope was put round his- neck , and he was hauled up to the limb of a tree , when he expressed a wish to make a confession . This was granted , and he then said that he
and two other men , named Quarles and Knowlton , had laid the plot by which Stephens was murdered ; that they had killed another man a short time before ; and that they belonged to an organized band of about twentyfive men , who ' carried on the business of robbing and murdering . ' Oil thi 3 , Baines was respited , but kept in close custody , while tire mob started off in pursuit of Quarles and Knowltou . These men were shortly afterwards arrested . Another implicated person , William Wood' s , hitherto supposed to be a respectable citizen , was also apprehended ; and in his house were discovered instruments of coining . Judge Leeompte in vain endeavoured 1 to calm the people and induce them to allow the accused to be legally tried . Quarles was executed by the mob , who hxrng on to his hands and feet , to make his
death the more sure ; and Barnes was' about to follow , when he again promised important revelations . Once more he was reprieved' ; but what he stated did not satisfy the people ; who erred oat for Ms execution . Judge Leeompte , Marshal Denis , and Baines ' g wife eartre 8 try exhorted the mob to pacify themselves : the last-named , indeed , -was almost frantic in her efforts . to save her husband ' s life . But all was in vain . A large piece of timber was used by the people as a batteringram against the door of the house where Baines was imprisoned . - A breach was soon made , the wife screaming for mere }' , and the mob crying for instant execution ; and Barnes was dragged out , and speedily bung : Some others belonging to the gang have sinee been put to death ; and the city continued for a long time m a state of great excitement .
; A ' difficulty * which recently occurred In an hotel at the Ephrata Mountain Spring , Pennsylvania ,, threatened at one time very serious consequences . A gentleman , named White , while sitting at the dinner-table , accused one of the black waiters of removing hi * plate before he had finished his dinner . The waiter denied tbe charge ; a very hot altercation ensued ; the ? black - inan appears to have been insolent ,, and to have called Mr . White a liar ; and finally the ' gentleman' threw : a tumbler at the head of the- waiter . The latter evaded the missile , and then ,.- . advancing toward * Mr : White , struek him i « the face , urged on , it is said r by the other servants in the room . A gsaat uproar followed ,, and tbe guests , whe were chiefly from the Sout & v forced theotFending" waiter out . A nsseeting , attended by all the boarders in the house , was shortly afterwands held , and ! very general sympathy with Mr . White yrata expresses ! At length , however , a gentleman from Baltimore
madea violent speech , denouncing ' , free negroes , and attacking PeiinaylvanAai and her laws . This was answered by a Piiiladelphlan , who plainly hinted that the- other had not spoken tho truth . Several gentlemen ^ , also from tbe Norfeh , followed in the same strain , and great confusion ensued , which , however ,, at length waa calmed . Finally , the expulsion of tho offending servant was demanded , and it was announced that he would be- very severely handled if he appeared at tho tea-table ., The servants of the house * also- held av meeting , and resolved that ,, if their comrade was expelled , they would leave the establishment ia a lbody . It appears that the man was wrongly accused of removing the plate ,, which had been taken away by another . At length , on , the following day , the offending waitci- loft tho houso in such a way as to satisfy the scruples of the other blacks , and . so tfte jnattoj ended . The fianea $ ter ( U . S . ) Expresa , which repowta tho . affair , believes that l this is tho first difficulty that has ever occurred' at the hotel in question .
Sea . View House , an hotel at Nqvaslnk , New Jersey , baa been the aoono of a . dreadful crime . Albert S . Mosea , temporary bar-keeper sat up during part of the night , gambling with James P . Donnelly , tho book-keeper , from whom , ho won , fifty-ftva dollars . This money , it afterwards appeared , had been abstracted by Donnelly from ono of the guests of tho . house ; ai » d , fearing that he shonld be called to account for it , lie seems to have determined , if possible , to get it back . He theroforo want into Mosos ' a bedroom in the early morning , an-d
apparently searched for tho sum , but could not find , it . While bo occupied , Moses , it is thought , made some alight motion > on which , Donnelly cut tho sleeper ' s throat . Tho latter sprang up in pain and terror , and recognized Donnelly , who flod , pursuod by the wounded man , crying " Murder 1 " Tho inmates were roused , and . wont ' to the assistance of the bar-keeper . The wound in his throat was eewn up but it waa hold tp be impowiblo that he should live . Donnelly waa secured . One of tlio American journals relates , on the authority of ' a gentleman of Qsalowka , ' tho following story U-
fanity . To all these threats Mr , Brown made no reply . Bowen , getting more exasperated , said , ' I will head " a mob and clear out the Herald office , ' and rushed up the stairs , followed by one or two others . Mr , Brown drew a revolver , and , as Bowen was trying to force open the door , fired , the ball striking the casing at the side of the door . Brown then told him to try the door again at hia peril . Bowen made another effort to get in , when Brown fired a second time , tbe ball passing through a panel of the door , striking Bowen in the breast and lodging in the right lung . Bowen made his way down stairs , sank upon the pavement , and in about twenty minutes was a corpse . "
luatrative of journalistic life in the southern parts of the United States : —" The editor of the Herald , Mr . J .. M . Brown ,, with Mr . D . W-Rice , was sitting at hii window . At this time , Mr . Bowen , who has kept a saloon in the city for the last twelve months , came along , and with a number of others stopped on the steps beneath the window where Brown and Rice were sitting . Someone in the crowd said to Mr . Bowen that Mr . Brown was at the window above . At this , Mr . Bowen commenced cursing Mr . Brown , and swearing that , if he came down , he would ' cut out his heart , ' 'take hi 3 life ' s blood , ' ' stamp him into the earth , ' with other threats qE violence , made with the moat fearful and . bitter
pro-The Joseph C . Morrison , a beautiful steamer plying on Lake Simcoe , Canada , has been burnt to the water ' s edge while lying at Barrie Wharf . Flames were found issuing from the eentre of the vessel about one o ' clock , a . m ., at which , moment the watchman was discovered asleep at his post . Captain Bell was aboard at the time ; . and he and the other officers made every effort to subdue tbe fire ; but it increased in intensity every minute with extraordinary quickness , and it was soon found necessary for all hands to goon shore . The purser carried off some 500 dollars in cash ; and this was the only thing saved . It being feared that the wharf and adjoining btuildings would catch fire , the vessel was cut adrift , and she receded into the bay , flaming from stem to stern , and sank with a loud hissing sound . The cause of the fire is not known .
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ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . Several , men have been killed and wounded by an accident on tho We & fc Somerset Mineral Railway . The line ( a single one ) was constructed for the purpose of bringing the iron ore from the mines at Brendon-hiU , and it is tlaie practice for the workmen to run down upon the engine on Saturdays to receive their wages . . Last Saturday evening , the engine employed at the Roadwater portion of the railway brought down the workmen , and , by some strange blunder , the Watchet engine was sent to fetch them . The consequence of this was that the two engines traversing , the same line of rails came into collision , about a mile from Watchet . One man was killed on tbe spot , and two others died in a few minutes after their removal , while six or seven more had their arms and legs broken . The wife of one was so shocked on hearing the news that she suddenly expired . Two men ,, named Draper and Stevens , were repairing a well at a public-house on the Bath-road , near Devizes , when the latter determined on descending . He had not , however ,, previously ascertained whether the well was free fr » m foul air . In a very short time , he became insensible , and fell from the cradle by which his companion , was lowering , hiin . Draper followed in the hope of rescuing the poor man ; but he too fell to tho bottom , a distance of forty-five feet . A proper apparatus for ventilating tiie wellj so that others might bo enabled to go down , could not bo obtained under an hour , by which time o £ course both men wero dead . Draper was a widower ,, and has left uo family j but Stevens had a sick wife and child to support . A serious collision occurred on Monday-afternoon near tho Reigate station on the Brighton line . The accident arose from tho Brighton half-past ouo i > . m . fast train running into some goods waggons which were in tho act of being shunted just below the Reigate station to allow the passenger train to pass . Tho signals were set , to warn the driver of the up train not to proceed , anu liw conduct in driving against them waa conaidorod by the officials so reprehensible that he was taken into cuatody immediately after the collision . The trnin was rather before ita time on passing Horloy , the next station south of Reigate , and tho accident took place bol ' oro the tram wna actually due at the spot where « it occurred , ino efteot of tho collision was to throw tho eiigmo of tno passenger train , off tho rails . The tender and guard s break did not leave the metals 5 but sovenil of the lirsc and second class carriages wero thrown oft' and their inmates wore much shaken . There wore a great many pneaengere in tho train , and among thorn several persons of distinction . Happily nono of tlioin appear to have bean dungoroualy hurt , and nil were able to como on to London immediatel y after the accident , except tho Ho" - Mrs . Hanbury Tracy , who romaiua at Koigftto under raodlcol care . Tho venorablo Duohous of Inverness ana the BiaUop of Oxford woro in ono carriage . Tho dueuesa was much ahaken ; tlio bishop escaped unhurt , nnd wua very aotiva in rendering aaalstanco to his own luggage . On roaohing the Kodhill stat , io » , lio tel ographoa 10 his Montis ia London that " by God ' d blewsinfi , Uo I" 111
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 29, 1857, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29081857/page/6/
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