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festation , Lynch , a determined housebreaker , who was only one week out of gaol After an imprisonment of twelve months for a violent highway robbery , interfered to rescue the prisoner . In this effort , however , he counted without his host , for Mr . Bernard also arrested him , and , in spite of the most violent straggles , succeeded in bringing hi 3 two captives the entire length of Ca ? tle-atreet , where at length a policeman was found , and they were placed in the dock . —Cork Reporter , Mdbdeb us T-ipperakit . —Two families of the name of Stapleton , cousins , lire close to each other at a place called Gurtnahoe , about eight miles from Thurles . Differences nave arisen between them with reference to some land ; and these have led to murder . On Thursday week , says Saunders ' s Neios Letter , " JRichard Stapleton . went with a cart and a scythe to cut some coarse grass at a place . which adjoined the farm of Michael and John Stapleton , and , while thus engaged , the other two lnen 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 Uichard Stapleton , who made > for a fort at some distance , but he was overtaken , stabbed in 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 the wretched victim sought to avert the cut designed for his head . Not satisfied with inflicting other serious and deadly wounds on Richard Stapleton , the assailants then turned on his sister , and with the scythe . cut 'the flesh off her arm from the shoulder to below the wrist . [ The most singular mattfcer connected -with the-whole proceeding is , that one of the two men < njaged 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 bad as if unable to stir from-the injuries lie received . "
SrBEKT-PjLEAOHiNG in Belfast . —Some Protestant and Roman Catholic street-preachers at Belfast have been bound over to keep the peace— -that is to say , to withhold from their open-air exhortations . It is stated , however , that they iatend to continue their usual course .
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AMERICA . The elections to Congress , &c , are now occupying the attention of the Americans . The New York Herald thus describes the results , as far as they were known to the writer : —" Incomplete returns received at Nashville seem to indicate tiie election to Congress of seven or eight Democratic members in Tennessee . The election of Zollicoffer and lieady ia certain . The majority of Harris for Governor will exceed 10 , 000 . Both branches of the new Legislature will be Democratic . In Missouri , fifty counties have been heard from , which give Major Rollins fpr Governor a majority of 4721 . In Kentucky ,
the election in the third Congreasional district is still undetermined . In the fourth , Mr . Talbot , Democrat , is elected . Hefcurns from twenty-six counties in Iowa give a majority of about 3000 in favour of the new constitution , -which will bo 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 , audit was believed he was elected by 1500 majority , The Congressional election in Nebraska has resulted in the < choice of ono of tho several Democratic candidates
by a small majority . Judge Davidson has decided against Mrs . Cunningham , and committed her ; but tho Supremo Court of New York has granted a writ of certiorari on the application of the defendant . Governor Walker evacuated Lawrence on tha 3 rd inst ., with all the United States troops except 40 . Tho attack on Fort RoUly by tho Indians was said to bo the pretext for the measure . Subsequently , however , he returned with tho troops . Tho constitution of Tapoka has been adopted at Lawrence by 052 votes against 2 . The Free-soil party have triumphed over their opponents in tho election of minor officers . From Mexico we hoar of the unanimous re-election of Comonfort to the Presidentship .
According to the Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune , Lord Napier has informally sounded tho Administration with regard to tho roanpointment of Consul Barclay . A letter from the late Vice-Consul Sohedel has been filed , which goes to show that there was false testimony na to Mr . Barclay ' s participation in tho recruiting business . Tho United States ( Government la said to have replied that it could not take the initiative in restoring Mr . Barclay to the position which ho uad The Harris Cotton Factory , on the La Chine Canal , Montreal , has been J ( lre 4 by an incendiary and totally destroyed . Another French war steamer is on shore on tho Labrador coast . Tho man-of-war previously on shore ia ft total wreck .
A horrible story of Lynch-law ia reported in the American papers . Anuui i named Stephens , belonging to the city of Kansas , -wont ono day to Leayonworth , ' and drank deeply at a public-house kept by oue Babies , The
landlord appeared to-encourage him in his potations , and finally , when he was very intoxicated , proposed a walk up the Missouri riven They w-ent , and were assaulted by . two men who demanded their , money or their lives . Baines yielded up his money , and then ran to the . town and gave * ae alarm . Several citizens -went to the spot , and found Stephens crawling out of the river , his person covered with wounds and bruises . Almost immediately afterwards , he died , without being able to utter . a word . Suspicion at once attached to Bainea , and . he was arrested by a posse of the citizens . It was then agreed that he should be hung on 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 twenty - five men , who ' carried on the business of robbing and murdering . ' On this , Baines was respited , but kept in close custody , while the mob started off in pursuit of Quarles and Knowlton . These men were shortly afterwards arrested . Another implicated person , William Woods , hitherto supposed to be a respectable citizen , was also apprehended ; and in his house were discovered instruments of coining . Judge Lecompte in vain endeavoured to calm fhe people and induce them to allow the accused to be legally tried . Quarles was executed by the mob , who hung on to his hands and feet , to make his
death the more sure ; and Baines was about to follow , when lie again promised important revelations . Once more he was reprieved ; but what he stated did not satisfy the people , who cried out for his execution . Judge Lecompte , Marshal Denis , and Baines ' wife earnestly 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 mercy , and the mob cr 3 r for instant execution ; and Baines was dragged out , and speedily hung . Some others belonging to the gang have since been put to death ; and the city continued for a long time in 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 bis plate before he had finished his dinner . The waiter denied the charge ; a very hot altercation ensued ; the black man 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 towards Mr . White , struck him in the faee , urged on , it is said ,, by the other servants in the room . A great uproar followed , . and the guests , who were chiefly from the Sooth , forced the offending waiter oat . A meeting , attended by all the boarders in the house , was shortly afterwards held , arid very general sympathy with Mr . White was expressed . At length , however , a gentleman from Baltimore made
a violent speech , denouncing free negroes , and attacking Pennsylvania and her laws * This was answered by « Philadelphian ,. who plainly hinted that the other had not spoken the truth . Several gentlemen * , also from the North , followed in tine same strain , and great confusion ensued , which ,, however , at length was calmed . Finally , the expulsion of the offending servant was demanded , and it was announced that he would be- very severely handled if he appeared at the tea-tablo . The servants of the house also held a meeting , and resolved that , if their comrade was expelled , they would leave the establishment in a body . It appeal's that tho man wa » wrongly accused of removing the plate , which had been taken away by another . At length , on tho following day , the offending waiter loft the house in such a way as to satisfy tho scruples of the other blacks , and so the matter ended . The Lancaster ( U . S . ) Express , which reportB the affair , believes that l tikis is tho first difficulty that has ever occurred' at tho hotel in question .
Sea View House , an hotel at Nevasink , Now Jersey , baa been the aoone of a dreadful crime . Albert S . Moses , temporary bar-keeper , sat up during part of the night , gambling . with James P . Donnolly , the book-hooper , from whom he won fifty-five dollars . This money , it afterwards appeared , had been abstracted by Donnelly from one of too guests of the house ; and , froring that ho should bo called to account for it , he seems to lmvo determined , if possible , to get it back . He therefore went into Cloaca ' s bedroom in the early morniug , and
apparently searched for tho sum , but could not find it . While so occupied , Moses , it is thought , made some slight motion ; on . which , Donnolly cut the sleeper ' s throat . The Latter sprung up in pain and terror , and recognized Donnelly , who nod , pursued by the wounded man , crying " Murder ! " The inmates were rousod , and went ^ to the assistance of the bar-keeper . 'JCne wound In his throat was sewn up , but it was held to bo impossible that he should live . Donnelly was secured . One of tho American journals relates , on tlio authority of a gentleman of Oaalooeka , ' tUo followlog story
Illustrative of journalistic life in the southern parts of the United States : — " The editor of the MevaleL , Mr . J .-&& Brown , with Mr . D . W . Rice , was sitting at bis 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 Bice 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 his life ' s blood , ' ' stamp him into the earth , ' with other threats of violence , made with t > he most fearful and bitter
profanity . To all these threats Mr . Brown made no xeplj-. 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 his peril . Bowen made another effort to get in , when Brown iired a second time , the 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 , Bank upon the pavement , and in about twenty minutes was a corpse . "
The Joseph C . Morrison , a beautiful steamer plying on Lake Sinicoe , Canada , lias been burnt to the water ' s edge while lying at Barrie Wharf . Flames were found issuing from the centre of tha 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 the fire ; but it increased in intensity every minute with extraordinary quickness , and it was soon found necessary for all hands to go on 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 buildings 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 . Sisvekal men have been killed and wounded by an accident on the West Somerset Mineral Kailway . The line ( a single one ) wa . s constructed for the purpose of bringing tbe iron ore from the mines at Brendon-hill , and it is the practice for the ¦ workmen to ran down upon the engine on Saturdays to receive their wages . Last Saturday evening , the engine emploj'ed 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 the spot , and two others died in a lew minute 3 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 tho well was free from foul air . In a very short time , he became insensible , and fell from tho cradle by which his companion was lowering him . Draper followed in the hope of rescuing tho popr man ; but ho too fell to tho bottom , a distance of forty-five feet . A proper apparatus for ventilating the well , bo that others might ho enabled to go down , could not be obtuined under an hour , by which time of course both men were dead . Draper was a widower , and has left no family ; but Stevens had a siok wife and child to support . -
A serious collision occurred on Monday afternoon near the Reigate station on tbe Brighton line . Tho accident arose from the Brighton h « lf-past ono vm . fust train running into some goods waggons which were in the act of being shunted j , uat below the Reigate station to allow tho passenger train to pass . The signals wore set , to warn tho driver of tho up train not to proceed , und his conduct iu driving against them was considered by the officials so reprehensible that he was taken iiHo custody immediately after the collision . Tiro train was rather before its time on passing Horley , tho next station south of Keigato , and tho accident took plnco bufore tho train was actually due at the spot whore it occurred . l » o effect of the collision was to throw tho engine ot ttvo d
passenger train off the rails . The tender und gunxu break did not leave the metala ; but aoveriil of tho llrst and second class carriages were thrown oft" and their lnniAtes were much shaken . There wore u groat many passengers in tho train , and among them several persons of distinction . Happily none of thorn appear to hftvo been dangerously hurt , and all wore able to come on to London immediately after tho accident , escopt tho Hon . Mrs . Hanbury Tracy , who roinalns at Kolgalo umior medical care . Tho vcnorublo Duchess of Inverness ami tho Biahop of Oxford were In ono . can-logo . Tho duchess was much shaken ; the blaht > i > escaped unhurt , ana wan very active in rendering assistance to hie own luggage . Oa reaching the Kcdhlll station , ho tologroimeu to liU friends iu Louden that "by God's bleaamtf , no Una
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822 TUB L 1 APEE . [ No . 3 S& , August 29 , 1857 .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 29, 1857, page 822, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2207/page/6/
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