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VOLUME XXIII NUMBER 164 CONGRESSIONAL ROM EUROPE OUR DAYS LATER ft a a to 1 the then Wheat Sugar to and the House Sherman and Bo number as before 3 I At 2 no com ues High Price fob a bio A bill has been introduced into the Legislature of Texas and has phased the House authorizing a reward of $10000 for the capture of Cbrtinaa or any other of the leaders of the Mexican brigands on the Rio Grande PORTLAND Pec 15 The following is the latest per the Nova Sco tian: Paris Wednesday The rumors of the bom bardment of Tangiers by the rench caused a de cline in the funds Rentes closed at 70f 30c or below rates The Vanderbilt arrived out on the 30th and the City of Baltimore on the 1st Liverpool Cotton Sales of cotton in the Liverpool market for three days 19000 bales of which 3500 were on speculation and for export At the close there was but little inquiry and prices were rather weak although nominally without change State of Trade in The Man chester market was favorable and the market closed firm at the highest prices for goods and yarns Liverpool Bkbadstuffs The Editorial Shooting Case Nashville Dec 14 The grand jury have ignored a bill against Allen A Hall Election Two Havemeyer men residing in the vicinity of Waverly so Mates a cor have beta to pay which are quite aa ridiculous as any which have yet been redeemed One whose beard ia of patriarchal length is to go for six months with a face half shaven and tho other is to saw a cord of mixed wood in front of the residence of the person with whom hewaa foolish enough to make tbe TVmrv Oee14 rrt i A new comic newspaper to be called Vanity air is shortly to make its appeal ance In New York i I Arrival of the Steamships Bremen and Nova Scotian Excitement in Philadelphia Dee 15 Some excitement is at present existing and there are prospects of a riot to night Au anti slavery fair is being held at Concert Hall and a meeting at the Assembly buildings During the meeting this morning a request was received from the Mayor to remove a Hag hanging before Concert Hall as a violation of the ordinance in obstructing the streets The flag bore certain words and characters which might lead to a dis turbance of the peace An order was also receiv ed from the Sheriff that the fair should be closed and the hall deserted before 3 this atternoon These proceedings produced much excitement The abolitionists in council resolved to proceed in a body to Concert Hall and protect their goods The offensive flag removed by or der of the Sherifl) was demanded by the owner of the building who objects to the action of the les see in letting it for such purposes Curtis is to lecture to night on the aspect of the slavery question at National Hall Adver tisements appear in the papers for a meeting outside to adopt such measures as the exigency may require to prevent the dissemitfation of principles calculated and intended to arouse a spirit of the most intense animosity in the com munity and to lead to fearful consequences and to check hireling incendiaries from making fur ther inflammatory addresses in our loyal city The Mayor is taking every precaution to prevent dis turbances which seem almost inevitable if the other side turn out in strength Second Dispatch Curtis lectured to night to an audience of 200 while about 10000 attended the outside meeting The latter party were addressed by Gen John Miles Richard Peters and others Soon after Curtis commenced several of the mob threw stones at the building breaking the window glasses ive hundred police stationed in the vi cinity immediately made a rush on the rioters and arrested several This summary proceeding had a tendency to calm the excitement which at first threatened serious consequences Mayor Henry and the Sheriff were on the spot directing the police During lecture he was several times hissed by the inside audience The hissers were immediately ejected by the police The excitement is subsiding and possibly the trouble is ended South Carolina Washington Dec 15 lu the South Carolina Legislature on the 12th Mr Whaley member from Charleston submitted to the House of Representatives the following preamble and resolutions: Whereas raternal relations are dissolved be tween the North and South the slaveholding States demanding the dissolution of the Union to be consummated and this state of affairs will pro bably render a resort to arms necessary therefore be it Resolved That the sum of $200000 be placed at the disposal of the Governor to be used at his discretion according to the exigency of the times rom Peak St Louis Dec 15 The Leavenworth overland express seven days from the Peak mines arrived this evening bringing Utah and Jefferson mails and $15000 in dust The weather had been intensely cold causing cessation of mining operations Lead mines had been discovered in the moun tain region the mineral being nearly pure The Provisional Legislature was still in session Business was active THE MISTER! SOLVED Mr Barney Campau Mur dered and his Body Thrown into the River Arrest of Three Persons Sup posed to be the Murderers Charlestown Va Dec 14 The town is rapidly filling up with strangers to witness the approaching executions The sys tem of excluding citizens adopted on the occa sion of Capt execution is not to be re peated Gov Willard of Indiana accompanied by Mrs Crowley of New York the sister of Cook and the Hon Voorhies Attorney General of Indiana arrived here yesterday and visited Cook The interview with his sister was most affecting In the day Dr Staunton and his wife of Indiana and Miss Hughes arrived Mrs Staunton is a sister of Cook and Miss Hughes a consin They also visited the prisoner present ing a scene of grief and anguish scarcely to be described They all promised to see him again but through the advice of Governor Willard each wrote him a few farewell lines and all the ladies have left for their homes The male rela tives design to remain with Cook till the last arrangements have Leen made to have the body of Cook taken to New York for iuterment Some of relatives are expected to day His body will be sent to his mother at Springall Iowa The bodies of Green and Copeland it is thought will not be claimed and will be decently interred near the gallows The prisoners this morning were cheerful and making religious preparation for death Cook was much cast down after parting with his sisters but is now calm and collected awaiting his doom The Charleston Courier says it is reported that Senator Hammond has expressed his intention to resign his seat at the close of the session He has been prevented from attending at Washing ton by indisposition The Secretary oi the Treasury has invited pro posals to be received till the 27th inst for the issue of any portion or the whole of $3000000 in treasury notes in exchange for gold under authority of the acts of Congress of December 1857 and March 1859 Charlestown Va Dec 15 ihe hotels and private houses are all crowded A strict surveillance is kept on strangers though those who come from curiosity and are well vouched for on the question of our peculiar insti tutions are all allowed to remain Three gentle men friends of Coppic visited him yesterday He lived with them in Ohio during bis boyhood and they speak of him as having been a quiet and inoffensive youth They will remain with him until after the execution and take his body to his mother Governor interview with Cook last evening for the purpose of delivering a message to the prisoner from his sister Mrs Willard was very affecting Gov Willard is much attached to Cook and weptover him as if he was his own son His lamentations could be heard throughout the building The prisoners are all calm and resigned To day they have been engaged in spiritual exercises under the direction of the Rev North with much apparent devotion The gallows were re erected this evening The negroes will be hungat Hand 12 and the whites between 12 anil 1 to morrow WILBUR STOREY KOITOIt AND PKOPKlKTon The ire in the American Tract Society Building The American Tract Society suffered a severe reverse yesterday in the destruction by fire of its Depository on Spruce street The flames were first discovered in the drying room which occupies the fifth floor of the building and before they could be cheeked the contents of the fourth and fifth floors had been destroyed The water flooded the three lower stories and of conrse mined the stock which was stored there It was at first hoped that the insurances which amount to $83000 would cover the entire loss but there is reason to believe that this will not be the case The Tract House proper which ia located on Nassau street is uninjured and the publications of the Society will be issued as usual Tinies Dec 14 Joy and Affliction In less than one month after Gen Pierce had received the announcement that be had been chosen President of the United States in 1852 his only child a promising boy was killed at the side of his father and mother by the upsetting of a railroad car On the third day succeeding the election of ernando Wood to the Mayoralty of this the most joyous event probably in the whole course of Mr life his wife was struck by the hand of death and passed to that bourne whence no traveler Within less than four weeks of the time for the inauguration of Hon John Letcher as Governor of Virginia his second son an inter esting youth of ten years of age is taken from him he having died on the 5th lost of lockjaw Herald Det 14 The Copper Interest The copper mining interest as a whole looks well to a reasonable observer bnt such an observer it should be re marked would never have justified the move ments and prices of last spring To those who did justify those movements and prices the pres ent aspect and quotations of quite a number of the low priced stocks cannot it would seem be particularly gratifying however brilliant may be their ultimate destiny The progress towards dividends however of the Pewabic Quincy ranklin National and Rockland seems all that the most sanguine should desire on the assump tion that their veins are to continue as rich in the future as they have been in the immediate past Boston Post Dec 13 Probable Murder of a Son by his ather On Saturday evening a noted character living on the corner of Mary and King William streets David Boyle a blacksmith whose name so fre quently appears in the police reports came very near killing his own son a lad of abont ten yearn old by striking him on the head with a heavy hand hammer by which blow the skull is frac tured severely and may result fatally Hamilton Times Dec 13 son Spence Co quote flour dull and declined Is sales at 2227s Wheat dull and declined 1 2d sales of red at 9s 6d10s white 9s 6dlls 8d Corn quiet and declined Is per quarter Liverpool Produce Pot ashes quiet at 27s27s 3d pearls dull at 27s fid Sugar steady Coffee quiet Rye inactive Spirits of turpentine steady at 34s London lour very dull declined l2d Corn declined l2d steady a still if the very was IGHT BETWEEN THE SPANIARDS AND MOORS HUMORED BOMBARDMENT TAN GIERS BY THE HENCH with diamonds Two More Ballots for Speaker but Ao Choice Cook Coppic Green and Copeland to be Executed To Day PREPARATIONS OR THE EVENT DECLINE IN BREADSTUS tc LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH much excitement at San Antonio The Mex icans are favoring Cortinas THE ERRY INVA DERS rom Washington Special Dispatch to the Herald Washington Dec 13 Thurlow Weed was called to a severe account last night by some of the New York republican delegation for attempting to dictate to them who they should vote for from Speaker down to the most inferior office Thurlow attempted to deny the charge but it was no use His interference has been too palpable and he knows it He has gone home The President has not determined when he will send his message to Congress He said to day it would not go in before Monday next at any rate In regard to sending the message I) New Lork ue is still undecided what course he will pursue It is understood the President desires to send his message to the Senate his friends wish him not to at present It is probable he will in a few days should even the House not be Every document to accompany the message has been ready from the first day or the session The Senate has not yet definitely arranged the committees nor does there appear to be any hurry about the master Caucuses were held ear ly for the purpose of putting the matter under way because several Senators want to be absent for a short time General dispatches arrived here this morning and were considered in Cabinet coun cil to day His mission to San Juan has been highly successful He succeeded in making a temporary settlement entirely satisfactory to the English authorities there The administration are exceedingly gratified at the success and bis course is entirely approved There is a bold project spoken of for bringing negroes from Cuba to lorida and from that point to supply the demand in Louisiana Missis sippi and Alabama taking them by the way of Georgia This is to evade the law more effectual ly The projectors believe from the short dis tance between lorida and Cuba they can suc ceed in doing a large business Though this would not be directly importing from Africa it would give a great impulse to the slave The administration is informed of the scheme and gives credit to the representations made In structions have been prepared for United States Marshals and naval officers to prevent a violation of the laws The intelligence from Central America brought by the Atlantic to our government is not impor tant Matters were progressing there about as usual Professor Dimitry was still at Costa Rica but was expected to leave for Nicaragua in a short time It is reported here that a person who came on from New kork laljly and made a flourish about a steamship mail contract to Brazil and other ports in South America is issuing stock and rais ing money among simple capitalists on his scheme The Department has been so informed No contract has been made by the Department lor this service and I believe none is likely to be with the individual alluded to The letter published in the Constitution this morning signed by Senator Johnson of Arkansas denouncing Col Hindman member of the House from Arkansas has excited the friends of those gentlemen to an unusual degree as the princi pals are well known to be men of genuine and not sham chivalry Senator Johnson is expected here every train and upon his arrival it is under stood that Col Hindman will challenge him General Cass gives a dinner this evening to the diplomatic corps Special Dispatch to the Times Washington Dec 13 The deepest feeling characterized the debates in Congress to day Mr speech was listen ed to with profound attention and his appeal to northern Senators to realize and appreciate dan gers which now threaten the Union made an ev ident impression on that body Senator Wilson persisted in ridiculing the Union movements at the North and declared that Massachusetts would give fifty thousand majority for republican doc trines whatever might be the consequences to which they would lead Mr Sickles' speech in the House was clear log ical and conservative and was attentively listen ed to by the members and crowded galleries It was delivered in good taste aud with decided ef fect The foreign diplomatic corps were pres ent in full strength Such lias been the effect of the discussion that one distinguished foreigner inquired if the Union would be dissolved before or after the election of Speaker? There is not the slightest prospect of organization and mem bers hardly deem it necessary to ballot The President postponed sending in bis message in consequence of failing to hear from Mexico as was confidently anticipated Dispatches received at the rench Legation speak of the probability of Count Sartiges being accommodated with one of the European mis sions while the present Minister at Bogota will be advanced to the mission here The Third Auditor has nearly completed the report on the Oregon war debt He will recom mend a heavy deduction from the amount allow ed by the Commissioners This will be violently opposed by Senator Lane and Gov Stevens 'l ire Supreme Court is passing rapidly through the docket and Chief Justice Taney expresses hope of clearing it before the close of the term Trans Continental Telegraph rom the Times Dec 14 Mr Charles Stebbins and his associates of the Western Uuiou Telegraph Company are en gtged in telegraphic enterprise of a magnitude which fully entitles it to be classed with the ef forts which are being made to connect Europe ad America The above named parties with others on the Pacific side have actually commen ced and are earnestly carrying forward the con struction of a telegraph line from St Louis to Sin rancisco under the patronage of the New York Associated Press and the presses in other cities connected with it in the Atlantic States and the San rancisco Bulletin aud Sacramento Union on the Pacific side The line on the east end has been completed for nearly three hundred miles west of St Louis on the route of the over land mail and about two hundred and fifty miles on the west end from San rancisco The New York Associated Press and the Bui letin and Union of California have undertaken to pay the contractors a sufficient sum for seuri wtekly leports of important news to justify them in going forward with the line a sufficient dis tance from each side to gain from two to four days over the mail or in other words to place New York and San rancisco within sixteen oi seventeen days of each other And there is rea son to believe that other parties and perhaps the government of the United States will now come forward and give the contractors auch assistance as will enable them to extend the wires through from city to city within the next year or two Arrangements have been made by the Associa ted Press to have a full summary of commercial and general news from the Pacific prepared at Saar rancisco and dispatched by the semi week ly overland mail adding thereto at Los Angeles one or two later news from San rancisco and at the arrival of the mail at or near Springfield Mo the wires will be connected through to New York via St Louis and Buffalo a distance of up wards of 1500 miles and the news will be instant ly transmitted through the agency of the Hicks a new device by which land lines may be worked in a single circuit any required dis and given to the public through all the leading journals of the country in the same man ner and to about the same extent as the public have been served with European news from Hali ifax arther Point Ac Ac Mr Stebbins and his associates are also build ing under the patronage of the Associated Press a line to Salt Lake and it isalready in good work ing order to Atchison in Kansas Special report ers for the Association are now on their way to central positions in that direction and within tho next few days the leading journals of the coun try will be in receipt of full and reliable reports from that important section of our country The California line is now open to the public and commercial dispatches can now be placed in the mail thirty hours after it leavesSt the tolls west of that city being one dollar for the first ten words and ten cents per word for all over ten and all the telegraph offices in the country now receive dispatches for San rancisco Suicide in Prison A German named Henry King aged 35 years an ignorant fellow much given to intoxication was found hanging by the neck in his cell in the county prison yesterday morning by Mr Little one of the keepers King was committed by Aiderman Dallas on Dec 6 on the charge of wife beating He used his neck scarf by which he hung himself and when dis covered the body was stiff and cold as though the deed had been consummated several hours be fore An inquest was held and a verdict of sui cide was rendered by the jury When the tact of the death was made known to Mrs King the wife she said in broken English" that may be it is better for herself that he is The brutality of the husband had probably caused her to treat his death with philosophical Phila News Dec 10 Tarred and eathered A man named Al fonso Clark was recently tarred and feathered in the town of Gorham Ontario county New York by several residents of that place The Ontario Repository gives the following as the cause of the outrage: summary method of dealing with Clark is understood to be a punishment in flicted upon him for some improper and immoral conduct of which it is said he has been guilty Among other things it is said of him that about a year ago he married a girl of the neighbor hood and soon after deserted her leaving her in miserable circumstances and that more recently he has induced a young girl about sixteen years of age of Rushville to live with him as his wife and that the friends have punished him by lynching for his criminal Lord Gbosvknob not Easily It ap pears from the papers that the boys in the sharp town of Sonora imagined that yonng Lord Grosve nor was green and waked him up at his hotel in order to try him at cards He played with them at poker whist seven np euchre and other games they seeking all the time to get him intoxicated but it turned out that he beat them fairly with their own weapons and in the morning was the only sober man in the He is now popular in that locality and the boys will fight for him His early education was attended Sacramen to Union ROM WASHINGTON Washington Dec 15 Senate in executive session yesterday horses three saddles two bridles and all the money there was in the store In the conclu sion of the affidavit Mr Miller says: "When they first came up they looked up at the aign and said they would like to shoot at the The affidavits accompanying this report are full and explanatory and the undersigned begs to make them a part of his report They are sworn to before a Justice of the Peace for Jackaon county Missouri and the seal of the Jackson County Court is attached to the certifi cate as to the official character of the Justice of tho Peace The undersigned thinks that in re viewing these outrages h0 did not inappropri ately characterize the Pottawatomie Creek mur ders as instances of "savage barbarity and demo niac while the robberies of Bourn and Bernard are almost without parallel in the histo ry of crime in this country In this connection the undersigned deems it proper to state that the report so currently circulated throughout the country to the effect that the lamented Wilkin son Sherman and the Doyles were caught in the act of hanging a free State man and were shot by a party of free soilers is without the least foundation in truth that it is entirely false Au and Huabaud The following sad story was told in the divorce court of Great Britain on the 21st of November: In 1851 Miss Theresa Caroline Bishop was Intro duced to the Hou Hugh Rowley a son of the late Lord Langford an Irish peer at Ryde in the Isle of Wight Shortly afterwards he proposed and was accepted aud they were married at Padding ton in January 1852 They went immediately after the marriage to Paris aud lemained there for three weeks According to the evidence of Mrs Rowley her husband soon began to treat her with great harshness and on one occasion about three weeks after the marriage locked her up in a sitting room from seven in the evening until four the following morning without fire or candles They went from Paris to Calais for a few days and there he beat her They next visited Brussels Daring their stay they visited Water loo and on their journey home he tore the bon net from her head and threw it into the road and forced his hat over her eyes rom Brussels they went to rankfort traveling in a compartment of a railway carriage by them selves He kept kicking her during the journey because as he said some one had looked at her at the station When she arrived at rankfort she fainted and was taken to a hotel She asked for a glass of water on coining to her senses and he forced a spoonful of salts down her throat They afterwards returned to Paris and traveled by dili gence from Strasbourg The journey occupied twenty hours and he did not allow her to get out of the carriage all the time She mentioned vari ous other acts of ill usage In March 1853 while they were at Boulogne he cut off' her hair saying he did so because he prized it Abont the same time he pulled her out of bed when she was ill and threatened to strike her with a meat chop per He also refused to let a doctor attend her aud she sent for one without his knowledge In January 1853 they were at Dundalk in Ire land where a regiment in which he then held a commission the 16th Lancers was quartered Among other modes of ill treatment which bo there practiced he never allowed her to leave the house He told her that the officers of bis regi ment had held a sham court martial upon him be cause he had boasted of beating bis wife The re sult was that in the following May he left the army They afterwards lived together at Brus sels for thirteen months but be was in the con stant habit of going away and leaving her for a week at a time During a part of the years 1854 and 1855 she lived with her mother and with Mr and Mrs Gye who are friends of her family Mr Rowley made fiequent promises of amendment aid at the beginning of 185ti they again lived to gether in lodgings in Upper Berkeley street On the 24th of May 1857 he went away saying he would return in a few days and take her abroad and leaving an address to which sho could write She did write several letters but received no an swer and never saw nor heard anything of him uutil a few months ago She said he had never given her as much as a sixpence from the time of their marring" She prayed for a decree on the ground of adultery desertion and cruelty It was proved by other witnesses that Mr Rowley after leaving his wife had gone to livo with a Mrs Green a widow at the house of her mother in Edinburgh and that from May 1858 uutil April 1859 he and Mrs Green eohabitated as man and wife at Ipplenpen in Devonshire In April 1859 Mrs Green died and he left the place A dis solution of marriage was decreed Brutality to a Child Coroner James re turned from Blue Island yesterday whither he went to bold an inquest upon the child of a Ger man named John Scbiuoeker which it was stated be had murdered He found the body of the child iederika Schmoeker 6 years old in a small filthy hovel where the parents have lived in extreme poverty depending entirely upon their neighbors for the means of subsistence They arrived iu this country from Germany only three weeks since The hovel was scantily fur nished and there was not a mouthful of food in it Oue of the witnesses Bertha Selle a neigh bor testified that she saw the child last alive on Saturday in the atternoon that she was badly marked with braises aud that her mother told her she had struck the child The child on that day complained of being very hungry and tired and wanted to go out and get something to eat but her parents prevented her This witness also tes tified that the father on one occasion tied the child up with a rope around her neck and that the mother beat her with a rope and also said she wished the Lord would take her away so that she wouldn't trouble her any more The brutality of the parents however was not the cause of her death The post niorteiu examination reveal ed a partial dislocation of the third vertebra of the neck and the evidence showed that this dis location was caused by the falling from a high bed in the absence of both her parents The child was a weakly unhealthy thing during her life and starvation had not tended to render her condition any Chicago Times Dec 14 The Napoleonic The lorence cor respondent of the London Times discussing the affairs of Italy expresses the following opinion as to the Italian war and the Napoleonic policy: whole scheme of the liberation of Italy ends in an almost complete subjection of this country to rance The Emperor resting on the (Enotrian and the Iberian peninsula already finds himself master of those Greco Latin races at whose head he fancies he can dictate laws to the world but their mere subjugation is not the final aim of his ambition They must be armed and disciplined they must be deluded bewilder ed fanaticized galvanized into an excitement that may resemble life Spain is already fighting the battles of rance in Africa Italy fought rance's battles in Lombardy When once they have put on a sword these two Latin sisters will powerfully help their elder in a struggle for em pire against her Teutonic The Daily ree Preen $6 the Tri Weritlr th Daily to city subscribers 12JJ cents per week THE REPORTED DEATH NENA SAHIB DETROIT MICHIGAN RIDAY MORNING DECEMBER 16 1859 The confirmed the nomination of John Hart as Super intendent of Public Printing and Amasa Par ker as Attorney for the Southern District of New York in place of Sedgwick deceased Other nominations were not definitely acted on Mr Stallworth democratic Congressman of the Mobile district is still prostrate at home from the effect of his recent attack The democratic Senators held a caucus to further the consideration and arrangement of the standing committees Mr Toombs it is under stood advocated the restoration of Mr Douglas as chairman of the Committee on Territories but no vote was taken on that point as Mr Toombs stood alone in the caucus in entertaining that de sire Mr Green will doubtless continue as chairman Messrs Pugh and Douglas were not io the caucus Minister Yancey on his return from South America was made the bearer of a magnificent gold snuff box studded and worth $5000 from General Urqnizn President of the Argentine Confederacy as a mark of his personal regard to ex Commission er Bowlin who is not yet aware of the present Senator chamber was entered at an early hour this morning and two gold watches and some cash were stolen without awakening him Hon Mr Letcher Governor elect of Virginia is among the recent arrivals in this city Cook County Ill Damocratic Con vention Chicago Dec 15 The democratic county convention for the election of delegates to the State convention at Springfield in January was held this Reso lutions were adopted endorsing the Cincinnati platform and declaring Stephen A Douglas the first choice of the convention for the Presidency The Rio Grande Marauders i Charleston Dec 15 The Courier has special advices from Browns ville which state that Cortinas had quartered the dead bodies of the Texan troops killed in the late skirmish There was The Massacre by John Browu at Pot Official lieporl of the Committee of Congress The following is an extract from the report of the Special Committee of the House of Represen tatives on the troubles in Kansas (pp 104 109) demonstrating that John Brown did commit the massacre at Pottaw atomie Creek irst iu order of time are the murders com mitted on the night of the 24th of May 1856 on Pottawatomie Creek In this massacre it is known that five persona were killed in one night viz: Allen Wilkinson William Sherman Wil liam Doyle father aud William aud Drury Doyle sons The undersigned begs leave to refer to various affidavits which he appends to aud makes a part of bis report Allen Wilkinson was a member of the Kansas Legislature a quiet inoffensive man His widow Louisa Lane Wilkinson testifies that on the night of the 24th of May last between the hours of midnight and daybreak she thinks a party of men came to the house where they were residing aud forcibly carried her husband away that they took him iu the name of the Northern and that next morning he was found about 150 yards from the house dead Mrs Wilkinson was very ill at the lime with measles Here fol lows an extract from her affidavit: "I begged them to let Mr Wilkinson stay with me saying that I was sick aud helpless and could not stay by rayself my hns band also asked them to let him stay with me until he could get some one to wait on me told them that he would uot run off but would be there the next day or whenever called for the old man who seemed to be in command looked at me and then around at the children and re plied have I said I have but they are not here and I cannot go for the old man replied It matters and told him to get ready my husband wanted to put on his boots and get ready so as to be protected from the damp aud night air but they would not let him they then took my husband away they were gone I thought I heard my voice in complaint next morning Air body was found about 150 yards from the house in some dead brush a lady who saw my body said that there was a gash in his bead and his side others said that he was cut in the throat Mr Wilkinson was a poor man and of course his widow was left destitute but regardless oi this fact they took away some property in cluding the only horse they had Mrs Wilkin son was presented at Westport Missouri with the necessary means to go to her in Tennessee She has two small children Mrs description of the leader of the men who murdered her husband suits Captain John Brown a well known character in the abolition party She says that her husband was a quiet uiau and was not engaged in arresting or dis turbiug anybody He took no active part in the pro slavery cause so as to aggravate the aboli tionists but he was a pro slavery man The circumstances attending Win Sherman's assassination are testified to by Mr Jas Harris of ranklin county Kansas Mr Sherman was stay ing over night at the house of Mr Harris when ou the night of the 24th of May about 2 Capt John Brown and party came there and after taking some property and questioning Har ris and others Sherman was asked to walk out Mr Harris in his affidavit says: man Brown asked Air Sherman to go ont with him and Sherman then went out with Brown I heard nothing more for abont fifteen minutes Two ol the Northern as they styled themselves staid with us until we heard a cap burst and then these two men left Next morning about ten clock I found Wm Sherman dead in the creek near my house I was looking for him as he had not come back I thought he had been murdered 1 took Mr Wm Sherman (body) out of the creek and examined it Airs Whiteman was with me skull was split open in two places and some of his brains were washed out by the water a large hole was cut in his breast and his left hand was cut off except a little piece of skin on one In relation to the assassination of James Doyle and sons the affidavit of Mrs Mahals Doyle the widowed mother was procured Wil liam Doyle one of the murdered was 22 years of age Drury Doyle the other was 20 years of age Mrs Doyle was left very poor with four children one ot them only eight years old to support Mrs Doyle testifies: a party of armed men came to her house about 11 she thinks on the night of the 24th of May they first inquired where Mr Wilkinson lived and then inade Mr Doyle open his door and went into the house saying they were from the of the North and asking them to Says Mrs Doyle: "They first took my husband out of the house then they took two of my sons the two eldest William and Drury out and then fdok my husband aud the two boys away Aly son John (sixteen years old) was spared because asked them in tears to spare them In a short time afterwards 1 heard the report of pistols two reports after which I heard moaning ns if a person was dying then I heard a wild whoop went out next morning in search of them and found my husband and Wil liam my son ly ing dead in the road near togeth er about two hundred yards from the house Ihey were buried the next day On the day id the burying I saw the dead body of my son Drury rear for myself aud the remaining children in duced me to leave the home which we had been living at and 1 went to the State ot Ihe testimony of John Doyle goes to corrob mate that ot his mother Here follows an ex tract: I found my father and one brother (Wil liam) lying dead in the road about two hundred yards from the house 1 saw my other brother lying dead on the ground about 15o yards from the house in the grass near a ravine His fingers were cut off his head was cut open there was a hole iu his breast William's head was cut open and a hole was in his jaw as though it was made by a knife and a hole was also iu his side My father was shot in the forehead and stabbed in the breast I have talked often with northern men and eastern men in the Territory and these men talked exactly like eastern men and northern men talk that is their language aud pronun ciation were similar to those of eastern and north ern men with whom I had talked An old man commanded the party he was of dark complex ion and his face was slim My father and broth ers were pro slavery men and belonged to the law and order There seems to be little or no doubt that a cer tain notorious leader of the free State party (as they call themselves) in Kansas whose name it is not here deemed proper to give was at the head of the party engaged in the fiendish massacre Mr Harris testifies that one John Brown one of the leaders of the free State party was engaged in the killing of Sherman and it will hardly bo doubted that they who mur dered Sherman also killed the all be ing murdered on the same night and in the same neighborhood Those who were killed it is tea tilled were pro slavery people and the under signed has no hesitation iu saying that these ill fated men were deprived of their lives and their wives and children made widows and orphans in consequence of the insurrectionary movements instigated and set on foot by the reckless leaders of the Topeka convention Next inorder are the outrages committed on the property of Mr Morton Bourn and that of Bernard The affidavit of Mr Bourn shows that on the night of Wednesday the 28th day of May 1856 a party of abolitionists entered his house forcibly threatened to take his life if he did not leave the Territory immediately took all the money he had which they said they want ed to carry on the war They also took guns saddles and horses and then robbed bis store of various articles Mr Bourn on oath says: own slaves and have a crop of corn and wheat growing Have never taken any active part with the pro slavery party only voted the pro slavery ticket and was for sustaining the laws These men said I must leave in a day or two or they would kill me or hinted as ranch said I would not fare well or words to that effect I left tor fear of my life and the lives of my family They said that the war was commenced that they were going to fight it out and drive the pro slave ry people out of the Territory or words to that effect The men that robbed my house and drove me away from my property were abolition ists or free soilers I believe they hated me so because I am a pro slavery man and in favor of the Territorial laws and because I served on the last grand jury at Lecompton" But the most flagrant case of robbery that oc curred while your commmittee were in Kansas was the plundering of MrJoab store and premises Mr Bernard is quite a young man and of highly respectable family While prosecuting his business he was warned that his life was in danger and was compelled to leave his home for safety and during his absence his store was rob bed of nearly four thousand of goods and money and his premises of cattle and horses of the value of at least $1000 more The facts of this case are testified to by Al easts John Miller and 1 nomas Hamilton Mr Bernard testifies him self as to his life being threatened and the amount of goods in his store and other property on the premises Messrs Miller and Hamilton corrob orate hie testimony and the undersigned makes their depositions a part of his report St Ber nard place is situated in Doug las county on the California aud ort Scott road about thirty miles from Lecompton The robbery took place on the 27th day of May In his affidavit Mr Miller says: was in the afore with Mr Davis Whilst there a party of thirteen men came to the store ou horseback with rifles revolvers and bowie knives They inquired for Mr Bernard I told them he had gone to Westport One of them said to me You are telling a God damned and drew np his gun at me Some of them came into the store and the rest remained outside They called for such goods as they wanted and made Mr Davis and myself hand them out and said if we hur they would shoot ns They had their guns ready After they had got the they wanted principally blankets and they packed them upon their horses and went away Mr Joab Bernard is a pro slavery Mr Miller recog nized one of the party as an active free State man They on the next day came back with a wagon aud took the remainder of the goods in tho store ex cept about one hundred and fifty worth including flour sugar coffee bacon and all kinds of provisions as well as two flue Washington Dec 15 The Vice President announced that the special committee under Mr resolu tion to inquire into the circumstances attending the invasion of Harper's erry had been appoint ed The committee consists of Messrs Mason Davis Collamer itch and Doolittle Mr Pugh submitted a reselution which lies over instructing the Committee on Territories to inquire into the expediency of repealing so much of the act for the organization of the Territorial governments of New Mexico and Utah as requires that all laws passed by the Territories shall be submitted to Congress for approval or re jection Air Alallory of la gave notice of his inten tion to introduce a bill to regulate aud increase the pay of the navy The Senate proceeded to the election of a Chap lain On the first ballot there was no choice The second ballot resulted in the election of Bev Dr Gurley who received 35 votes out of 50 Several petitions were presented when the Sen ate adjourned till Monday next House Mr Vallandigliatu of Ohio remark ed that the courtesy he extended to others at all times he was resolved to exact for himself at every hazard and therefore last evening he had the right to expect the cour tesy of an adjournment as he did not then wish to address the House He repeated what be had said that the man who endorsed the book containing insurrectionary sentiments and intended to sow the seeds of discord and stritb and civil war was not til to be Speaker or a mem ber of this House The gentleman from Virginia (Mr Millson) the other day went further and said such a man was not fit to 1 i ve yet the republ icans received this remark as mute as fishes and gentle as lambs They must regard this observation from him not as a menace but sober truth He had been served with a notice from the republi can aide that they were determined not to listen to any further remarks from him or this he did qpt care He would tell them the country held its breath in suspense and listens to the slightest word which falls from lips of gentlemen here present This Union had been threat ened here He occupied a position of neutrality He was not a northern man and had no sym pathy and little good feeling for the North He was bound to it by no tics whatever except by the strongest of all lies a common language a common country Least of all was he a northern man with southern principles He was a United States man with United States principles He was for giving the South all that belonged to it the fugitive slave law the right to slavery in the Territories aud whatever rights the constitution confers Onr fathers made this compact and lie would yield to it not a grudging hut a ready obedience in all its parts Applause He was not a pro slavery man or an anti slavery man but had a se rene indifference on the subject He thought he occupied the constitutional ground of our fathers in whose days the people were animated by pa triotism and had not as some have now an anti sbiveiy God an anti slavery Bible and an anti slavery constitution He avowed himself a west ern man by birth sentiment and education while at the same time he avowed himself a constitution al man He said Mr Corwin had been detailed to lend the forlorn hope of the repub licans and be shot down at the Malakoff He could never conquer The next census would show that the valley ot the Mississippi has a majority of the peo ple of the country who would administer a government for the bent fit of all The people have lent themselves so long to the North to make a cause against slavery aud help to fight for northern masters who if successful with Seward or any other republican would divide the spoils among themselves bat they would not listen to the voice of patriotism them be governed by self respect let them lay aside their fanaticism and let western ectionalists be despised as much for their servility to the North as they could des pise servility in others to the South He came now to speak ot a painful and difficult subject disunion which had become as familiar as the most ordinary word of salutation There was not a day but wbat they heard the croaking of the raven and the mournful and dirge like wail He declared in the course of his remarks that he was against disunion now and forever He held to one Union one constitution one des tiny which could not he fulfilled except as a uni ted people and by the immediate total and un conditional destruction of the sectional and anti slavery republican party Applause After discussion the House proceeded to a ballot for Speaker with the following result: Sherman 110 Bocock 85 Gilmer 22 scatter ing 9 Necessary to a choice 11 1 On this ballot Messrs Haskin of Hick man of Pa and Schwartz of Pa went over to Mr Sherman This action was much applauded Mr Bonham had the floor He gave way to Mr Winslow who proposed another vote and then to adjourn saying Air Bogham would have the floor for to morrow The proposition was agreed proceeded to another vote cock each received the same Gilmer 18 scattering 13 Adjourned oriesthat were quickly and easily proved to bo tho shabbiest ibrieations He has been ie committee for four or five days KK evidence having been adduced against him of such a nature that he will find it difficult to sub stantiate liis innocence After exumination he was sutlered to depart and an officer sent to watch his movements until certain of bis state ments could he sifted which being found devoid of truth he was at once taken into custodyV lien aiiested lie was preparing bis toilet with tlm intent ion probably of slipping away 'ihe three are confined in separate apartments at the jail aud prohibited from holding eommuni caliou with each other or outsiders rom the admissions of Carroll as welt as from the evidence that has from time to time accumu luted before tho investigating committee the fact is established that the murder was committed a 'm after 3 on Wednesday morning 1 be deposition of the patroliunu Palmer wliicb has been looked npon with so much skepticism by tlie community was unquestionably truthful Mr Campau passed up the north side of Jefferson uvenue in company with him until he reached the ctoasing at the centre of the block between Bates aud Ifandolph streets irnd then seeing a light on the opposite side was attracted with the hope of meeting some friends and crossed over The inurdeieis bad been dogging his steps in the meantime aud when he entered tbe staircase of alv 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 I 1 1 I linLi airrvs 1 1 MAU uiiiiuiHjt wutav tnv nun oicu Uiuj luiiUW tS ed loin ami when he reached the bead of the first 5 flight of stairs seized him and run him through 4 the ball and down tbe back stairs into the alley ami theucu out to Batea street tbe opposite I direction from where tho patrolman was known to be He was knocked down in front of Haw ley's brewery robbed end then dragged to the I water and thrown in The only difficulty that has I stood iu the way of this theory has been the I lapse of time in which no trace of him could be seen The lime can however be almost entirely I accounted for on a little reflection and the night I cau be shown to have been fully occupied up to I the hour of bis death He was left near the Biddle I House between 10 and 11 in the evening ifiuon after he returned down Jefferson avenue to Hancock's saloon where he crossed to the north jeide At a quarter past 11 he was seen by two I persons on tlie cornor of Bates street and the ave I one and I of he nue beyond Third said he was seen on I before 3 he was met by the patrolman Palmer lioming down Woodward avenne It will be I more difficult to establish reasons for his singular Iwanderings He may have been in the despond ling mood which some have assigned to him and Jmrolled about with the desire of avoiding people lor he may have been in search of companions audhad failed to notice the lateness of the Whatever the reasons may be the fact is evident opened tor through passenger and freight trains to Port land and Borton on and after Monday the 19th inst or Elegant Holiday Gifts the ladies and gentlemen are requested to call at A uller 64 Woodward avenue Merrill Block and inspect the fine assortment of ancy urs of every description Wanted 99 horses 1 mule and 3 jackasses in exchange for city lots on 15 time by Johnston the great land dealer 160 Jellereon avenue The Steamer Europa Boston Dec 15 The Royal mail steamship Europa anchored belovr yesterday in consequence of the snow storm and did not proceed to sea until 9 this morning Explosion New York Dec 15 Goldsmith's percussion cap factory Brooklyn exploded to day killing Ernest Hyler who at the time was mixing fulminating powder ADMISSIONS CRIMINALI TY BY ONE THE INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE SUCCESSUL death of the Nana have ta from Kalamandoo They are not believed According to the latest accounts he was levying recruits on our frontier and threatening to anni hilate Lucknow He has about 6000 men ith him The Paris correspondent of the Morning lUr arfsays a battery commenced on Hontieur so as to command the entrance of the Seine is com pleted Tbe Bank of Barcelona has offered the Spanish government an advance of 5000000 reals with out interest for all the time the war with Aforocco might last A correspondent of the Morning Post says Austria still holds out against the terms proposed by rance and supported by England for going into the Congress The Piedmontese Gazette publishes the text Of the treaty between rance anti Sardinia and also of the general treaty between rance and Sardinia but they contain nothing more than is already known from the circulars lately publish ed A letter from Parma in the Milan Gazette states that the Assemblies of Central Italy will be con voked It adds that the people are loud in de manding the return of Gen Garibaldi Berlin November Baron Wilkens Hose man the Minister of Electoral Hesse at Ber lin has received orders to proceed to Dresden for the present The Prussian Minister at Cassel has gone on leave to Berlin A formal call of the ex Ministers by their respective governments has not yet taken place according to information re ceived here The difficulties between rance and Austria raised by the delegation of the Regency of Cen tral Italy to Buoncompagni are not yet re moved A letter from Berlin says the effective force of the Prussian army has again been reduced Paris Nov 27 A semi official Parisian cor respondent asserts that the letters of invitation to the Congress will be sent out on the 28th to the different Powers and that the Congress will most likely assemble towards the end of December AIadrid Nov 26 Yesterday more than 4000 Moors attacked for the third time the redoubt be fore Certulla and were repulsed Their defeat was complete The Spanish troops showed great bravery during this engagement The extraordi nary corps d'armee is crossing the straits resh regiments have disembarked at Ceuta Paris Nov 28 It is now asserted that the let ters of convocation to tho Congress will not be aent out before to morrow Count Walewski and Prince Richard Metternich had an interview to day at 2 o'clock Turin Nov 28 The Piedmontese government has received no communication intimating the opposition of Austria to the Congress on account of the nomination of Al Buoncompagni to the Regency of Central Italy The difficulties made by Tuscany in the delega tion of tbe Regency to Buoncompagni have not yet been settled Berlin Nov 28 Prussian agents have left for England in order to inspect those places on the south coast which might be suitable for his Maj esty the King to reside at during the winter months and make such preparations as are requi site therefor Besides the Isle of Wight Dorset shire is also to be inspected The British Parliament had been prorogued till the 24th of January The Prussian Alinister of War General Bonin had resigned and would be succeeded by Gen Hermann The ship Red Jacket had arrived from Mel bourne Sept 10th with 40000 ounces of gold It is confirmed that Cardinal Antonelli wiil represent Rome in the Congress Reports say that persecutions and ill treatment of missionaries in Cochin China have taken place Tho Belgian government has accepted an offer of a loan from the Rothschilds for tbe completion of the fortifications at Antwerp The British emigrant ship John and Lucy from Liverpool for the Cape of Good Hope was wrecked near Pernambuco The crew were saved The steamer Eagle and a water logged timber laden ship were in collision the coast of Ar ran Twenty passengers were drowned The balance were saved that he did wander about until overtaken by rob bers and met a frightful death The termination of the painful suspense in which the community in common with the im mediate relatives of the deceased have been so long placed however tragical will be a Mr Campau leaves a wife and two small children with whom the citizens of all classes will sympathize in their sad affliction He has ever deported himself as an upright and honorable gentlemen and was highly esteemed by all who knew him He was born in Detroit of one of the oldest families and has ever resided here His acquaintance is therefore very This is not confined to Detroit alone but through out the western cities and in Canada he had many warm friends who will learn of his death with sincere sorrow He leaves an ample fortune to his family His age we believe was forty Williamson EscAPED The Canadian author ities as we predicted have permitted Williamson to escape after conniving with him to keep him out of the hands of bis bail securities by locking him np We are informed that the ground of bis discharge was not as we supposed the decision that his offence was not robbery but that it rest ed on the inability of the prosecutors to procure the attendance of the principal witness Tobit who bu loystei disappeared with all ibe rest and cannot be found He has orohalffv put out of the way or bought off' by some of the tribe that harbor around the crib on Michigan avenue where Williamson has carried on his ne farious operations here was no reason why he should have been left to tho caie of our officers after he was discharged from custody on the other side and the public sentiment was in favor of sum a procedure but one or two petty officials saw lit to interpose themselves and however mean the representative who presents himself our officers have too much respect for law Cana dian or American to commit imprudent acte in violation of its sanctity Tho wife of this same escaped criminal was ar rested a few days ago for swindling a couple of individuals hailing from the Ann Arbor Universi ty whose verdancy led them into her They were in pursuit of the kind of female society which she kept on hand for the accommodation of visitors and got badly sold aa they deserved and now being ashamed of their exploit and the newspaper notoriety which it has given them they decline to appear against her so that the last chance for punishing any member of the gang vanishes If our police had a rope around tbe necks of the unsophisticated Sophomores they would be brought here in short order and taught their business They have probably drawn a balance between their experiences and their losses and concluded to stick to the paternal ensues hereafter The Concert Last Evening The musical Entertainment at Merrill Hall last evening was at tended by a very small audience a fact which we can only account for by the supposition that our public are unacquainted with the reputation and abilities of Air Squires It may gratify them to know tliat be ranks as the greatest of American tenors and that by the true and artistic excellence of his performance he merits the honorable ti tle In this bis first appearance in Detroit he surpassed the efforts of tbe whole artny of tenors with whose performances the public have been favored and delighted within the past few years He is peculiarly fine in ballad singing to which his voice is adapted by ils clear full and flexible nature and high state of cultiva tion In operatic singing be is not less proficient as was proved by his magnificent rendition of the beautiful air Spirito Gentil from La avorita the serenade from Don Pasquale and others Little Mary AfcVicker astonished the audience by her proficiency and talent She is a child of ten years of age jet she sung like an expert of mature years Her voice has nothing of tbe child in it but is remarkably full and rich not as a matter of course perfectly unfaltering for such a degree of attainment could not be expect ed of her years but unquestionably precocious to an extraordinary degree She is as rematkable an actress as she is a singer and her mimicry of the style of Brignoli the fat tenor called forth tremendous applause Her Coming through tbe Rye was captivating Both herself and Mr Squires were encored every time they came out Mr Edward Hoffman is well known to our citi zens from bis long residence among us Ilispro ficiency as a pianist has already given him a high rank and we have only to say that he sustain ed his reputation aud accomplished the difficult task of accompanying as it should be done The concert was indebted to his music for a great de gree of its interest Now that the ability of these artists is estab lished by actual experiment we hope to see our musical public sustain its reputation and give them an audience such as they deserve In case they do we promise them the best music they have heard in Detroit for some length of time The concert is repeated at the same place this evening A married man nambd Thaddeus Smith a resident of Romeo Macomb county eloped a few days since with a Mrs Maria North rop who lived at lat Rock in this county The circumstances connected with his escapade be came public on account of the notoriety connect ed with the disappearance of another individual ot the same name who has since made himself manifest The absconding husband left a family destitute at Romeo the intimacy between himself and his paramour having sprung up hile she was a visitor at his residence They went to Canada together The names of tbe parties to a disgraceful deser tion aud elopement ease which occurred in the same locality a few weeks since are corrected by a correspondent The man was William Platt of Huron Wayne county Both himself and Smith are ree Masons and members of Hiram Lodge No 110 of lat Rock Police Court Al Kelsey was convicted of stealing a lot of tools and sent up for ninety days Patrick Murphy was convicted of confirmed vagrancy and sentenced to ninety impris onment Thomas Gagnan was convicted of assault and battery and fined three cents George Netting and Patrick Carr were con victed of an assault on the last named person and fined $5 each John Cook was fined $15 for assault and bat tery Discharged The man who was arrested for the murder of Smith the graceless rascal who up set the decorum of bis native place and nearly drove his wife crazy by running away down to New Jersey was discharged from custody the existence of the supposed murdered man being the best evidence of his innocence He is in debted to hi tongue for the disgrace that he hag been brought into and will probably learn to control it iu future He asserted that he knew all about Smith and could find his body while he probably knew nothing about him one way or the other Examination of the Puhltc The annual examination of the public schools of the city is now in progress under the direction of the Board of Education The junior departments of the several Union Schools were examined yester day with very creditable results in most instances The senior departments usually attract the great est amount of attention and are favored with a larger attendance of parents and friends The examinations in these departments will take place to day The United States Ex press Company have furnished us with San ran cisco papers to the 21st ulL brought by tbe over land route Selling off at George Hann at No 157 Jetlerson avenue offers bls entire and splendid assort ment of urs consisting of Sabie Mink Marten Siberian Squirrel and Coney Ladies' Capes and Muffs Otter Caps and Gloves with all the cheaper kinds of urs at prices which cannot fail to suit Call and examine before pur chasing Cbrirtmas presents of urs Grand Trank Railway Company of Canada open 1112 mites The Victori Bridge at Mon treal on the line of the Grand Trunk Railway will be later hour between 12 testimony of a witness llgh character can lie met on Alichigan ave street At 2 it is Randolph street and a little New York Dec 15 Tbe following is a synopsis of the news per the Bremen from Southampton Nov 30: The America arrived at Liverpool and tho Ba varia at Cowes on Nov 28th The Board of Trade inquiry into the loss oi the Royal Charter terminated on the 25th The cal umny which some malignant persons are still cir culating as to the sobriety of Capt Taylor is re pudiated The Court Journal says that the Prince and Princess rederick William intend to prolong their visit to her Majesty until the end of next week Tbe Alalta correspondent of the Times announ ces numerous accidents to vessels laden with grain in consequence of the late severe gales in the Mediterranean Henry O'Connell third mate of the American ship lying Scud has just been committed by tbe coroner for Cardiff for trial for the willful murder of Antonio Lesmocher another sailor under cir cumstances of great atrocity The Times says tbe rench government has re ceived permission from Naples to lay a submarine cable from Gaeta to Corsica The transmission of messages to England will be greatly facilita ted 1 he Times' Calcutta correspondent says that leports one of them official announcing the hf'Pn I'PPAXWUil in Austria Holds Out against the ranco Eiiglisli Terms for Congress The People of Central Italy Demand the Return of Garibaldi rom Mexico New Orleans Oct 15 The Picayune's correspondent says that Lerdo had returned to the Juarez Cabinet and consents to the ratification of tbe McLane treaty without alteration The Secretary of the Mexican legation Senor Remer is a passenger by the Tennessee He left for Washington to day An Express Robber New York Dec 15 In the 8 Circuit Court to day Judge Inger iioll presiding Mahoney confessed judgment to stealing $50000 from the Adams Express Compa ny Biunigomery aih tie win ne tried oncriminal suit at Montgomery Railroad Rendered Impassable Nashville Dee 14 The Louisville and Nashville Railway is ren dered impassable for several days on account of the subsidence of the track at Creek twe Ive miles from Nashville Passengers are talc on over by hand cars After the most patient and unceasing exer tions of eight days aud nights the committee ap pointed by tbe citizens to investigate tho myste rious disappearance of Air Barney Campan I IlfiVA luil in inuiiiigiiwny me mystery and in ascertaining definitely that Mr Campau came to his death at the hands of a gang of midnight highwaymen solely for the purposes of plunder The fact is established that he was murdered on Bates street below Jefferson avenue at sfllttle af ter 3 ou Wednesday morning tho 29tb ulL by being knocked down with a heavy club After this he was robbed of bis watch and money aud then dragged to the river at the foot of that street and plunged into the water as the surest method bis assailants had of concealing their crime The body that was seen floating opposite tbe lied Tavern on Sunday night is therefore most probably the body of the murdered man It is supposed that the body was dislodged from tbe bed of the river by the heavy firing on Wednes day of last week but not having generated suffi cient gas to rise rapidly to tbe sin face floated away with the under current again rising at a later day by its specific gravity ami went down stieam Whether it will ever be recovered re mains to be seen A company of renchmen have been organized to thoroughly explore tho where it is supposed to have become im bedded in the ice Tim persons under arrest as parties to tbecrime ate I hinicl Carroll Michael Burke and Michael Costello The nature of the evidence against these men it would be manifestly improper to re veal at present The former is held it may be 'j "mu on nis own admissions ot guilt Ho villi the second named aro well known confede rates in crime the latter however being old enough to be the former's father He is not so notorious a character as the former cor is the evidence against him so conclusive of guilt Carroll has been frequently before the com Is ami is well known to the police as a pre cious villain The two weie ferreted out by of ficer Peter Gadwa who has exhibited the great est shrewdness and skill in securing them togeth ei with the evidence So fully has Carroll com mitted himself to bis guilt that he his taken of tieert idwa to the locality and shown the precise Rjiot where the first blow was struck and also the place where the body was thrown into the river He avoids naming his confederates in the transac tion admitting at the same time that they were several in number whom he designates by ficti tious names He was caught in a trap and while seeking to avoid the consequences of his iudisci'Ction entangles himself more and more firmly in the meshes He is a yonng man about twenty one or twenty two years old a per fect specimen of a villain His profanity is be yond comparison and his desperation fearful When tho officer was directed to hand ctdl him and take him to jail he displayed the stoutest resistance and fought like a tiger He was thrown down and overpowered before he could be secured and then refused to get up again and was finally dragged from the commit room in the Russell House by main force gjjjjand rolled down the stairs HU Costello is also a young man though perhaps a jEM year or two older than Carroll He has figured conspicuously in police court annals in this city at various times and has the reputation of being a desperate lighting man The evidence the corn Ka mittee have against liim is of a different nature It will lie fully revealed in due time Hemanifest ed a very different disposition before the commit tee than Carroll being quite docile and extreme ly plausible When the officers were in search of him under the pretext of desiring him as a witness be appeared before niitteo voluntarily He was tioned as to matters of which it was known he was perfectly cognizant eliciting evasive and answers assurances of ignorance and direct lies He knew nothing of Air Cam pan's disappearance until within a day or two bad never known or seen him and had never knoivn or seen certain other parties wit'i whom the officers were assured he was perfectly fa nnliiir He could give no account of his where abouts on the night of Air disappear ance and refused utterly to bring it to bis mind I In lecoiinting his doings for the past fewweeks gj told si I I ft innilu'! by Un (tvidpnnn hau! j't 4.